What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.

Art, and sadness, which last forever.

One crow will not pick out another crow's eyes.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates.

The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.