Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.