Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.

I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life.

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.