Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.

The Truth of God is taught by the Holy Spirit.

There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.

Think of God more often than thou breathest.

You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.