The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.