I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

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

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

May God give you the grace to pray and the desire to read the Holy Bible.

Intuition feels the imperceptible things that unknown to mind.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Your reciept is your library card." -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.