If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

I write because I want to fall in love with love over and over again

A boy who'd thrived in the shadows.Now he had to live in the light.To live . . . fiercely.To fight for every breath.

Are you telling me Kara Orris is afraid of rain?” Hunter’s grin twisted into a smirk as his eyes lit up, relishing his new discovery with absolute delight. “Why, that’s adorable!

All flesh shall perish together and man shall turn again unto dust.

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.