You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?