My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

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.

If you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, be sure you’re wearing work shoes.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?