I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp..

The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to g….

Africa is on the rise..

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses..

Start small and with your own money..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's qu….

The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fac….

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and….

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New Yor….

New York is the great stone desert..

There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa t….