We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.

The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough.

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

Those who are nurtured best, survive best.

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I will not be bound by anything but my love for you.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.

Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.