New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

For an hour we talked of Anne and that famous farm on Prince Edward Island. Thus the friendship began.

It is only God who can fill our void.

Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we’ll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.