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

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

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.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Because of pain you feel more and so you live more.

Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.

Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.

[Donald ] Trump is more important than all of us. He's more important than the media.