It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

Oh, what a better way to express your love than a plasticbag full of air.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.

This is hard for parents to say genuinely.

Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.