In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us.

You are rebirth

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

You are not happy because you're healthy, you are healthy because you're happy

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.