"Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me."

“Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.”

Source : "Chuck Close: 'Important Works on Paper'". Interview with Stephanie Wright Hession, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2013.

“I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.”

“We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.”

“What was broken will never be the same again.”

“I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.”

“I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.”

Source : Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

“It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.”

“On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.”