I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.