When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.

Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.

The woods were made for the hunter of dreams...

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.