I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?

I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

Right now is always the right time for almost everything.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

There's going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration's relationship to Russia.

You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!