"Arranging props in a scene such as this is a joy. With gravity on my side, everything at arms length and no arduous p…"

"I had so many other interests at the time: drawing, tinkering, building, inventing, games, sports, climbing trees. It…"

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"

"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"

"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the sto…"

"This is not a man who sits down to "write a poem"; rather, some burden of understanding and feeling, some need to kno…"

"I think that there is a huge disparity in Los Angeles, as there is in the US in general, between the wealthy and the …"

"I was told that if there weren't any power wires, I wouldn't have a body of work. I tend to use them on a regular bas…"

"The city is a place where people feel free to do and be whatever they want."

"The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can …"