I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

People value money but trivialize time.

Courage sometimes skips a whole generation

I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . .

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.