In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from

If you will look into the Science of Spirit you will see that your life is meant to be sustained by the Science of God and not by the science of matter.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.