Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

I've often stopped working for long periods.