"The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them."

“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”

“The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.”

“Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life.”

“I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something”

“One thing that success has taught me is censorship”

Source : "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

“The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.”

Source : Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”

“Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.”

Source : Ysabeau S. Wilce (2008). “Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog”, p.330, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Very good. It was perfect.”