I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.

She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.

When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage.