"All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books don't understand. Nobody understands. The universe, nobody understands my agony, or my questioning, and it's this shift in what in the world around us could possibly be meaningful or helpful."

“Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

“Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.”

“I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it.”

“When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.”

“The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.”

“I'm always appreciative of fans.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.”

“In fact, the world needs more nerds.”

Source : "Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke on Economy: 'Far Too Early to Declare Victory'" by Susanna Kim, abcnews.go.com. March 27, 2012.