I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.

Write the book you'd want to read.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.