I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today.

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

Donald Trump is a way better leader than Hillary Clinton.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.