But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area its like coming home for me.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I think there are so many extra benefits to running besides the health ones that come from getting your heart rate up, sweating, and all that other good stuff.

Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space.

Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

Proactive people carry their own weather with them.

I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

Ever since our Surfin' Safari' began in the early 1960's, the relations'hip with The Beach Boys and water has been synonymous. 'Surfin', 'Catch a Wave', and 'Surfin' USA' are songs which capture the feelings of being out in the water without a care in the world, living a dream so many long to live no matter where they are from.

In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.

The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Having my baby fall asleep in my arms takes away all of my worries and stresses. A sense of complete and total peace comes over me.

Laughter is God's blessing.

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day.