A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start

I'm having fun and I'm not even trying to do much. Everything is coming together.

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.