There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.