I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.