Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

I've aged, but grown up? No..

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear..

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently.….

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.