“Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.”

I was in a convent for a year.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

There’s so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn’t mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Hardships and handicaps can…stimulate our energy to survive them. You’ll find if you study the lives of people who’ve accomplished things, it’s often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

Celibacy is exhausting.

Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts

Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.

I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.

First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.

I just don’t think one person has that much to contribute to any subject

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

We only have one person to blame, and that’s each other.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.