I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

I'm going to kiss you now, and I don't know if I'll ever stop.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.