I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

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.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

Dear God, he prayed irreverently, was her blouse even legal?

Books are a treasured friend, however it’s difficult to explain it to a non-reader.

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.