I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all...Which is exactly why you have to ask "Why?" and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH...

Those who seek to aspire are those who achieve Greatness.

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Your skin is so soft. Smells like...-She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. Sheer, unadulterated fear?

Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.

I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.