The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.