"Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman."

"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech."

"Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy."

"Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs."

"Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists."

"I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the silence between the notes creates the music."

"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."