You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

....maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.

Money lets you enjoy the finer things of life, but it doesn't change who you are. It magnifies and brings into fruition the things that you want to hide most. It is a mask for insecurities as well.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.