Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.