My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day….

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I have a poorly done tribal armband that i got when i was 16, i love showing it to people because it totally sucks.

Don't let them tell you it can't be done..

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing..

I don't really like ska..

There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is ….

Education isn't something you can finish.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book..

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!.

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a ….

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

Some things are better done than described..

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done..

We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we have to write them all….

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..