I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?

Pain of the past never goes away, you just find a way to deal with it. And in the future....... all the promise it holds.... that's what keeps you moving forward, and out of the darkness.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.