“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.”

“What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.”

“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”

“There's a quality of legend about freaks.Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.”

“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.”

“The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.”