The only way to escape the weight of history is to write about it.

We are all bit-part actors in each other's lives.

The history of life is a history of connections.

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

You have to stay true to yourself and your art.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."