Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.

And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.