It's really hard to get people to understand why privacy law matters to them and get energized about it.

"She grew up moving around with the camels and the goats. So, wherever the sun sets, that's where they sleep; wherever the clouds are, that's where they go."

My mother, who is a very strong, nomadic woman, who grew up herding goats and cows, walking several hundred miles - and this is sometime unbelievable - she has never known that she lived in country called Somalia until she was really 17 years old."

"Art is much more nimble and responsive to the issues that we see in society. In fact, it is an early warning system for some of the challenges we will see."

"Art has awful manners."

"Mary Beard, a really famous historian - she's phenomenal - just wrote a book about how we see. [She] talks about art, not being about the person who made it, but what others made of it. And that's what I really like about art. It forces us to decode what we are seeing. It forces us to go through some mental gymnastics."

No one in this world chooses to be a refugee.

Just because one person tells you [that] you can’t do something, doesn’t mean it’s the end of the road or story.

I’ve always been obsessed with seeing images in my head and then trying to bring them to reality: that right there is wonder.

Trends will come and go; classics never fade.

Inspiration is all around you.

I love to think that we're all these cultural beneficiaries, agents, and eventual ancestors regardless of whether we ever have children. We are born into a world, we try to pick up on the ways we're socialized and interact with people, hopefully, we interrogate what we value and where that comes from and how it manifests...and eventually, we'll each play an individual role in collectively passing down a world. That is a sacred trust.

"(By this point,) I had enough rejections to wallpaper my entire apartment."

How are you going to be a blue caper?

...and every day I carry with me that thing that I came to understand, that now flows in my veins, and that is that nothing endures, nothing does. And maybe nothing should endure. But how much we put into it, how much heart we put into it, that is the measure of our lives. There may be, in fact, no other measure of our lives."

La inspiración de la calle, los murales que hay en las taquerías, todos los logotipos de los clubs de mala vida, la Revolución; todo eso alimentó muchísimo lo que hacíamos.

Si te haces mi novia, tú y yo vamos a ser el Diego Rivera y la Frida Kahlo de las caricaturas.

The work that we do today will be the artifacts of tomorrow.

Craft a story that is easily relatable from person to person.

It’s important to try and push yourself to go on a journey and dig a little bit deeper.

Expression and stories [are] vital if we want to preserve human connections.

In an increasingly digital world, how can we preserve the things that make us human to begin with?

We create our social realities through the way we make meaning together, through the way we engage in conversation, the questions we ask.

Wonder really pulls us outside of [the] rigid confines of the worldview that we’ve adopted.

Wonder is the key to the door beyond which lies awe. And ego is that door, and it’s either open or it’s closed.