I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

Watch who you have around you, and focus, work hard, and be humble, and try to be good.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.