I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

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.

No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.

If you need true friend 'a cup of tea can be' it gives you company, listen without complain and makes you fresh anytime, anywhere

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's chemical milieu.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.