To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

...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.

They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.

Many people want money but do not love to work.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.