I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.

I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.

Wainscott, Deepspace Operations Group, ’ said the man. ‘Wasn’t here, don’t exist, pleased to meet you.

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.

Love is a divine energy.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed

What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.