I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn't quite fit with the adjacent part.

I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I'll leave for other people to unscramble.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.