Born on May 20th

"Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid."

"My works are an imitation of my own past and present."

"I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body."

"At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution."

"I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism."

"I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not."

"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole."

"Body experience... is the centre of creation."

"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."

"I like the feeling that I'm on the right side of history."

"Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career."

"As a citizen - or even a TV legal analyst - am I required to presume innocence, i.e., that the authorities arrest the wrong person in every case? Not a chance."

"Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most."

"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."

"I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal."

"I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias."

"They can say I have an opinion about something."

"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."

"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."

"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."

"I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history."

"Growing up with a sister, someone I talk to all the time, helps me appreciate women."

"I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours."

"I would never have thought, when I was in my 20s, that I would be 44 and single."

"There's no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative."

"I am comfortable in my own skin."

"When you're behind, you have to work harder. Women have had to work harder to get ahead, and now they are in a place where they are surpassing men."

"In 2003, I had testicular cancer, and I didn't tell anyone about it - maybe five people. I had a fairly significant surgery. I was weak, slumped over. I told people at work I'd been in an accident."

"Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant."

"The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media."