It's nice that I can go down the road of obsessing over this smiley-face bullshit so maybe I can get free from it and think about something else-it's so banal and yet so crazy!

I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

Life happens

It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero

prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light.

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.