To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it's gone for good.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

You lose the speed before the stamina.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.