I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

Loyalty, trust, we both know those don’t exist toward others in our world. We prize ourselves above all others. To deny that would make you the biggest liar there is." - Marko Delacroix

Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.

SELF HELPUse the same amount of energy required to pull others down, to uplift yourself insteadKamil Ali

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.

True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st. -Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Love comes from the strangest places.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.