"Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?"

"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."

"Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races."

"I was willing to accept what I couldn't change."

"Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power."

"I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens."

"To love truly means recognizing that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."