When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.

All creatures are great and small.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

There is dignity after the storm.

It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

I love myself so much, I simply cannot describe it.

There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city.

Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.