I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

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.

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

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Immeasurable change is nobody's merit.

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.