Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over and over. These stories were so horrifying and really difficult to reconcile. For me, Noah wasn't the story of the graham cracker box with the little animals it was horrifying. I would ask the same questions as a child. "Well, what about the little kids? What about the dogs and cats?"