I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

Fashion is what everyone is doing. Style is what you are doing.

Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go in a museum."

Saddest thing nowadays is that words can kill

For if our bodies aren’t our own, And justice isn’t ours, And our love is just a sin, And voices by the peopleAre no longer for the people, What have we left to lose?

Animals fight wars

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

Understanding is the key to true knowledge

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.

When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.