When the Vikings moved into a place they just kind of killed everybody who was there before them.

People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote for the bully. It's so strange.

Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

Talent should minister to genius.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.