Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.