I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.
That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.
You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.
I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy.
Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.
I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.