Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.

Fashion is what everyone is doing. Style is what you are doing.

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go in a museum."

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

So long as you have life, you can pursue your dream.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

You decide which ones makes more sense, which is more practical and more logical to accept.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.