“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”

“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

“The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.”

“My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.”

“The formal education that I received made little sense to me.”

“My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.”