“I ‘m still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I’ll get it right.”

I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being.

This is one of the magical things about drawing – it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections – not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity.

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I’m still learning how to see them.

And at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.

I’m drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends.

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature,

Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged.

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it.

Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire.

When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

No matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .

I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.