"The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it."

“The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.”

Source : "Rei Kawakubo: Exclusive Q&A". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. November 19, 2012.

“Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.”

“Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.”

“I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.”

“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.”

“I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview With Duane 'Dog' Chapman". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. November 6, 2007.

“Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.”