"I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me."

“Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.”

Source : "Five questions for Nikki Grimes". Interview With Horn Book, www.hbook.com. February 6, 2017.

“You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.”

Source : Kay Thompson (2015). “Eloise: Book & CD”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”

“I’m even flattered! It’s what success is like. I’m happy I seem unreal to them, it means I’m doing a good job,”

“I've always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I'll get an idea; I want to express this idea, sometimes I'll start it, but during the process of making the object - if it's an object or a painting - it changes. It never goes in a linear progression from A to Zed. It's always this kind of circuitous, stumbling, groping in the dark kind of process of evolving.”

“Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.”

Source : "Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture". Book by Allen Carlson, Routledge, London & New York, p. 118, "Abstract Art, Concrete Art", 2005.

“L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.”

“I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.”