I always wanted to play a lawyer.
I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth. '
Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
A lot of the pieces I've done over the years have involved alterations of scale and the idea of the viewer's relationship to the object and how we see things by either enlarging or reducing objects, it causes the viewer to look at them again. It's hard to do because our culture is so bombarded by images and media. How do you make something fresh for a viewer? That's a real challenge.
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss.