The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

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

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

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.

It is the same in love as in war a fortress that parleys is half taken.

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy and I dare you to not like me.

I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?