All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

I write because I always want good to win over evil

It's very important to stretch, because while it's good to look pumped, a lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast. So you really, really have to stay supple.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

I am very good at what I do. I am better at it than anybody else.