But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.