Since I was 13 or 14, I've always felt older than I actually am.

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

Because of the person I am I won't be knocked down — ever. They can say I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm whatever, and I'll never stop. I just won't. I've got too much to do. I've too much to be happy about.

I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.