What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.