Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex

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

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

I'm not too interested in books about India.