White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

My journey, my life.My life can only be navigated by me.

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

the road is life

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.