My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.

Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

A final dirty joke.Another human punch line

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?