I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

Madness, ' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?

The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

The moonlight was enough. It would do.