Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.