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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

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.

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

But I always have and still do consider myself queer. To me, being queer isn't who you're sleeping with; it's just an idea that sexuality isn't gender-based, that it's love-based.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

I think it's important that we go through everything together as a team.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

I'd love to do a really broad comedy at some point.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the funny side, I work hard, and I try to be honest and just call it how it is.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.

I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y'know what I mean?

We fill the woods with invasive primates camouflaged to look like piles of leaves who sneak around, sprinkling estrus doe urine and manipulating gadgets that sound like antlers clashing.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

Battle not with monsters lest you become one.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

People in chorus tends to be much more emotional or at least wear their hearts on their sleeve. They are generally the kind to hold hands and cry. It's just a different personality type.

Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things landscapes season weather occasions incidents people that would otherwise have melted from my memory.

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.