I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

A mother's lap is the strongest hub and school of each religion. In other words, the mother breezes and waves the religion since the mother is a religion.

I'm very fortunate with all the jobs that I've done that I've wanted to do them. So, I feel very grateful for that. With each and every one, I could pick memorable moments.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.