Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?

Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands

You cannot see me from where I look at myself

I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

I wish i could change my mind as easily as I change socks But then I don't change socks so easily

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist

Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.

A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.

The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."