It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself.

Being here is such a contrast to where I’d otherwise be.

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

I don't have weird talents I'm just a weird person! And do impersonations.

I'm not going to disrespect you, don't disrespect me.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.