I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.