My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

I've never got to the bottom of streaking

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

The Goddess has a fourth face, which is secret, and you should pray to her, as I do — as I do, Igraine — that Morgause will never wear that face.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.