“I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.”

“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”

“They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.”

“I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.”

“What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.”

“If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?”

“I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.”