Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Art's too long and life's too short.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Art is too long, and life is too short.