I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

I love my loneliness as you do love your virginity.

A Sunrise is God's way of saying, "Let's start again.

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!

Complaint is a prayer to the devil.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.