Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

Art is what you get away with

The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.

If we continue, we die, " Baylon said. Jordyn touched his face. "If I don't have you inside me, I die.

Scent of old books a mystery

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and, ' 'the, ' and 'I, ' and 'it, ' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.