“I have some ideas on how to fix that.”

Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.

That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder

Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”

And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

I’m obsessed with speed. I’m always asking myself, ‘Why can’t we do things faster? Why can’t it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?’

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.