You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

I believe that woman are superior to men.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

I didn't like men, but I liked women.

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.