When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you. I dropped out of college at 21 and my illustration hadn't yet taken off. It is more than working in a store. It is a hard way to make a living but you earn more than in a similarly unskilled job.

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.