"I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again."

“I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.”

“Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.”

“I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?”

“One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art.”

“When we learn to trust the universe, we shall be happy, prosperous and well”

“The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.”

Source : Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

“Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.”

“Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.”