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.

...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.

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

As long as there is institutional inequality, hell, naw we can't all get along!

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.

Its all in the mind, you know.

Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.