Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up..

Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, ….

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that i….

My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species. Maybe the most dangerous predat….

A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-….

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable..

In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart.….

Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certai….

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness..

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous de….

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and anima….

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers..

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anyt….

I think that it's really important to go away and come back..

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in re….

[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our h….

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how p….

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object..

It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocenc….

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's….

Every doorway, every intersection has a story..