We always vilify what we don't understand.

You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me.

It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.

There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Your gift is what you were created to be

It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

I love the studio. It's my place to escape and to create and to try anything.

The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.