The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.

Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.