Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.