The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose

Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

When no one is watching, live as if someone is.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

I feel close to [Kanye West]. We're friends, this is not just a working relationship.