I paint with shapes.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

I paint with shapes.

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

To an engineer good enough means perfect. With an artist theres no such thing as perfect.

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences.

I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

I can give anyone a hard time.

The meaning of life is to adventurously discover our gift. The purpose of life is joyfully share our gift with the world.

That's it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations. Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do.

Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.

I watch my YouTube videos over and over.

I'm add and psychic. I know things ahead of time but lose track of which is which.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.

We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.

Well, it's not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.

Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'

But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

Fear itself is a creation of your mind. It does not exist independently. Since it is a fabrication, you don’t have to fight it. Just understand it. Understanding is the key to freedom.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

When the pastor's up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and spitting in the key of the organ. When looping, you're in key, you're in a rhythm, you're in a pocket, and that's where James Brown was pulling from, and so that's where I'm pulling from. The only difference is I'm coming at it under hip-hop.