"Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?"

“Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.”

“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.32, SUNY Press

“oh how television diminishes everything.”

Source : Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

“Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.”

“My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.”

“I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school.”

“The fantastical images in my works are descriptive in a different way - a metaphorical way - that removes you from reality. Then, this visually removed point of view allows you to deal with a very heavy subject.”

“I don't like my physique at all.”