And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

It is better to learn late than never.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

I try to be as clear as I can be.

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.