There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the truth.

I want to be a wise woman

I want an ending when the woman is happy instead of good.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people.

The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!