I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

I think it's so important to remember the complexity of things.

I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.

Life is a lesson, when you could get it over by your hands, means you just learned it well.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

You have to be involved to evolve.

his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and i could feel him thinking to himself this is no place to die

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.