Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.