There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

Uncleanness is the works of the sinful nature.

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?

The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.

How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.