"I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe."

"I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use."

"If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it."

"I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy."

"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."

"The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world."

"I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison."

"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."