“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

“I was thrilled. I loved the idea of opening everything up, of making old and secret documents available to anybody who wished to see them.”

“The furniture is comfortable to me. Rather than making a chair to sleep in or a machine to live it, it is better to make a bed. A straight chair is best for eating or writing. The third position is standing.”

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”

“Whoever accelerates the media of earth, water and air centrifugally perishes unconditionally, for in so doing they reduce the Blood of the Earth (water) to a pathogenic state and make it the most dangerous enemy of all living and growing things.”

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.”

“I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.”

“Now I lay me down to sleep
Knowing that your lenses peep
Now I eat my daily bread
And into the tape spool I'll be fed”

“Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.”

“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”