Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

Quality control starts and ends with training.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.