“I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.”

“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

“What I know is that I can trust his eyes because what lives in them, lives in me.”

“Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.”

“Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do”

“If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.”

“What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.”

“Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/”

“In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.”

“To dance with the naked [blow-up] doll, that was me! That's what I mean by I'm real, I'm truly hardcore, because I needed the money and I had to work. So if he told me that for me to get paid I had to go out there in bikini briefs and hop on top of this [blow-up] doll and that's how I gotta get paid, and I was homeless at the time, that's what I had to do. But What I did was not let him pimp me, you know what I'm saying. It wasn't like I just did that because that was my order. As soon as I got the check's to say what was on my mind, I said what was on my mind. And we have a platinum record now, you know what I'm saying.”