I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.

When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

People don't hurt what they love.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

Can you imagine what will happen if just for one day the sun forgot to rise?

Being happy is the best revenge.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

All that I am my mother made me.

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.

I wouldn't say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don't have the deal with all the drama that goes along with being an adult.

It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.