Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

Every journey has a starting point . . . and it has an end. God meant for [life] to be filled with joy and purpose. He invites us to . . . take the rest of our journey with Him.

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

You definitely shouldn't watch the special features before you watch the actual series.

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.