I love to live and I live to love..

Stop aspiring. Start doing..

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved..

Stubborness is believing in yourself when nobody else does..

My painting does not come from the easel..

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does..

While there is time, let's go out and do everything..

I cannot do politics under someone else's control..

If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the ….

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them..

Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-….

I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere..

A lot of things just aren't true any more..

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..

I'm always challenged by someone..

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women..

It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control..

Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are….

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them..

You and I are more than you and I because it's we..

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right..