Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind.

I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.