Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.