We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.