“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for somethi...”

“You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.”

“Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.”

“I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.”

“I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.”

“New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”