I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.

When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.

My favorite ginger is Prince Harry!

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.