I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.

I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.

When I graduated from high school, this is in Los Angeles, I was very interested in taking a trip to Mexico to see the archeological sites. So three other people and myself drove down there.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling

They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.

I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.

Hello, you sick twisted freak.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

To work is to live without dying.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.