Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

I like to follow my own muse.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.