The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.

I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.