When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

To order space is to give it meaning.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

I am always learning, always discovering.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

Appreciate the moment.

Now is as good a time as any to send up a prayer.

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

I can't tell anyone to vote.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.