I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.

You must remember, all stories start somewhere.

To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

When a 'setback' brings a 'comeback, ' that's grace in action!

He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

You may think that those aeroplanes in this city on 9/11 came out of a clear, blue sky. I believe they emerged out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.