I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

We were miles away from our real lives.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

Believe, don’t fear, believe.

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.