I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.

I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls...

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Jesus put his life on the line because He trusted that His Father had a greater plan.

What you wear doesn't really matter much. All that matters is where you're going what you're doing while you're wearing it.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.