Dutch Interior I, Joan Miró, 1928, Surrealism

London Bridge, André Derain, oil on canvas, 1906, Fauvism.

Woman with a hat, Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 1905, Fauvism

Improvisation 28, Vassily Kandinsky, 1912, Expressionism

Large Blue Horses, Franz Marc, 1911, Expressionism

"Street, Dresden", Ernst Kirchner, 1908, Expressionism

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907, Cubism

Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937, Cubism

Unique forms of continuity in space, Umberto Boccioni, 1913, Futurism

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917, Dada

Nude descending a staircase, Marcel Duchamp, 1912, the Armory Show (cubist and/or futurist)

The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz, photograph, 1907, Photo-Secession

Light Iris, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1924, Precisionism

Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, Giorgio DeChirico, 1914, Metaphysical Painting

The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, 1931, Surrealism

Object, Meret Oppenheim, fur covered cup, 1936, Surrealism

The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo, 1939, Surrealism

Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, Kazimir Malevich, 1915, Suprematism

Monument to the Third International, Vladimir Tatlin, wood/iron/glass model, 1919-1920, Constructivism

Composition in Black and White and Red, Piet Mondrian, 1936, DeStijl

Schröder House, Gerrit Rietveld, 1924, Utrecht Netherlands, DeStijl

The Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, 1925-1926, the Bauhaus

Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier, 1929, International Style

The Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1907-1909, Prairie Style

Kaufmann House "Falling Water", Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936-1939, Wright's later work

The Chrysler Buildings, William Van Alen, 1928-1930, Art Deco

Bird in Space, Constantin Brancusi, 1928, Organic Art

Reclining Figure, Henry Moore, 1947, Organic Art

Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1935, Depression Era Art

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942, Depression Era Art

Migration of the Negro #58, Jacob Lawrence, tempera on masonite, 1940-41, Depression Era Art

American Gothic, Grant Wood, oil on beaverboard, 1930, Depression Era Art

Detroit Industry, Diego Rivera, fresco, 1932-33, Mexican Muralism

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

Children are like sponges; they absorb all your strength and leave you limp... but give them a squeeze and you get it all back.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.

I am calm.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

Music inspires me.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

I surf, swim, play water polo, and I paddle an outrigger canoe with my team. I'm also a klutz on land, so water is my thing.

It's the early bird that catches the worm