I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.

What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.