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

The true way is along a rope that is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

"The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize."

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success."