I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Quote by Laurie Anderson

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It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to...

It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to...

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be...

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be...

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot...

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot...

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for...

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for...

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get...

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get...

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told...

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told...

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so...

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so...

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work...

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work...

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a...

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a...

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that...

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that...

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing...

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing...

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and...

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book...

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book...

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as...

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus...

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.