At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.

All creatures are great and small.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.