I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

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

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

And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.