What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction the objects the technology. It really adds up.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

I have said with respect to authorization bills that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre and installed instead as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it but anybody can do it.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open tall-ceilinged super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures should the need arise. It has arisen.

When money and hype recede from the art world one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations large paintings and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.