But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

I plunged into him, kissing him like I was flame and he was wood, our tongues igniting

It doesn't matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing.

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

It's fun as hell to fall and to not get something and then to finally land it. That's like pursuing a girl that said no a hundred times and she finally say yeah.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

It is important for me to feel at home.