The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.

The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.

Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.

The longer they hang out, the deeper the history, the richer the life. If you use that as a template or as a way of realizing things, then I don't think you can go wrong.

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.

That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose.

If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

No, he focused on the one thing that he knew would keep him grounded the way the demon said he'd need

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.