"I always think of what I do as a culmination of energy, information and matter & how to direct energy information and matter in the design of a thing or in the design of a life. Living is very much a process of channeling these energies to where they need to go. Manifestation is also directional: it has that vector quality to it that I think of agency as."
"I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me."
"Because when you're in your studio, you don’t have to be a finished product all the time or make formal pronouncements. Work and love—the two best things—flourish in studios. It's when you step outside and have to define everything that they often disappear."
“I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a life style which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a life style which only allows us to make and unmake, produce and consume—a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment.”
“That I cannot come to be fully human unless I have received myself as a gift and accepted myself as a gift of somebody who has, well today we say distorted me the way you distorted me by loving me.”