I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth.

I guess I'll wake up tomorrow and find I'm not in Kansas anymore.""You're from Kansas?" Most of Kansas was not a lion fae territory. She'd heard the cobra fae loved to go there, however.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.