When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.

To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.

I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color