Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'.

Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with - he doesn't deal with members of Congress.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.