People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

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.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I’ll know I died in good health.

I always want my guests to be happy and impressed.

I wouldn't like me, if I had to be around me.

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

I was a dreamer. When I was on stage I didn't have to think about whether I could pay the rent. I was just having a great time.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

Dignity and love do not blend.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.