The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

I'm a transvestite potter who won the Turner Prize - that's quite a niche.

知识分子中最大的一些身份错乱就是他们很难记得住自己不是上帝。

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.