The Universe in a Nutshell
I was always much too elated to imagine despair.
There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized.
I had thrown my body in for art. . . I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art. )
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up
It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.
I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.
The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of dronesPredators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan. . . My concern is that dronesPredators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.