I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.