I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.

Don't Believe Everything You Think!

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.