The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can.

There is no tranquility in ideas.

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.