I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.

If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

I kiss your heart because those before me have scarred it.

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

We need heart. We need a lot of things. But you have to have some basic ability. And sadly, she [Hillary Clinton] doesn't have that.

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go in a museum."

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

If you’re decent to others, then you’re decent to yourself.

I don't ever mean my pictures to be depressing - I don't believe in making depressing pictures.