... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

This is the complacency I have run into.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.