I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.