That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night

Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

There's a black rose growing in your garden.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?