Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

It is important for women to do something about what they see.

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

I wanted to live among books.

Cheaper'n recyclin' yer nose tissues. --Mema

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.