I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism - which isn't Russian anyway, Karl Marx was Russian.

Maybe the consequences of someone’s unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.