“You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.”

“Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.”

“If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (…) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.”

“I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it! - talking about her hometown Erexim.”

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”

“The essence of art can never change. I'm convinced you can't talk about art. At best, you will have a translation, a poetic paraphrase, & as for that I'll leave that to the poets.”

“Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?”

“I even sponsored them myself, although I don't like really like to talk about my charity, erm, work. Which is a good job because I do so much that you'd never shut me up. If I spoke about it. Which I don't like to do.”

“You can say anything about me; as you please… But I am what I am and that's something that you can never be”

“She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.”