I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

We were either gonna win the game or win the fight.

Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn't feel bad about that. It's not your bear.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Oppression makes a poor country.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.