My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

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.

LINK OUT OF SYNCWhen the mind fails to keep pace with the body's maturityKamil Ali

Maybe you don’t need to understand her

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.