If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Love is a heart's feeling, there is no understanding or judging.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.

Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

The more the merrier.

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

If there's something wrong, speak up!

They remember to do it all the time.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.