In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.