I put death in my work very often, and I read a lot about dying. I think it’s crucial to include death in your life, to think about death every single day. The idea of being permanent is so wrong.

deep sleep—and woke up enlightened. This is how I read the story: that to achieve a goal, you have to give everything until you have nothing left. And it will happen by itself. That’s really important. This is my motto for every performance. I give every single gram of energy, and then things either happen or they don’t. This is why I don’t care

Suddenly we both had chills: this ancient Chinese poet had somehow foreseen the astronauts’ vision of the Great Wall from space. It was at that moment that we conceived our next great ambition: we would walk the Wall, starting from opposite ends, and meet in the middle. No one had ever done this before, we were quite sure. Not only would we meet in

I knew that when a girl slept with a guy for the first time, she was usually in love with him, and that the guy would always leave afterward, and the girl would suffer. I didn’t want any of that to happen to me,

Edit was friends with the Ramones, and the Ramones were crazy about Alba—they put her in a video!

Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. Her study of a “toroidal magnetic confinement nuclear fusion device” called Wendelstein 7-X—essentially an energy-producing artificial sun created in a laboratory—is nothing less than breathtaking.

Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They should be treated as living treasures. Yet they are not.

if you went to the bathroom, another patient would come and take your bed from you: families were literally sitting on patients’ beds to hold them.

Can I change my energy field? Can this energy field change the energy field of the audience and the space? Conditions for Living Installation: Artist Duration of the piece 12 days Food no food Water large quantity of pure water Talking no talking Singing possible but unpredictable Writing no writing Reading no reading Sleeping 7 hours a day