Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

To failure at something is an attempt to succeed

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

What we do have is nothin' but time. Welcome to the Shawshank Redemption of late night!

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books.

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.