When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.