Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

I'm always looking for the next challenge.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

There are very few people who do what I do.

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.