I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.

You look for one thing and you find another.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.