"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."

"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."

"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."

"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."

"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings."

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."