I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.

Who cares if no one likes me? one day i will become rich and you will want me then.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.

We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.