My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Keep your eyes open, take risks, and whenever possible, don't think of things the way everyone else does.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.