Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

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.

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.

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal.