I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

In some ways I'm very structured.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system.

To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.

Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.

I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I never forgive attacks on my work.