“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”

“I think I made you up inside my head.”

“And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.”

“I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.”

“Well, and the 'X-rays' [X-Ray, 1991, black and white photograph]... I was just interested in seeing what it looks like inside my head – and the idea that they could just examine the inside of my head like a globe. And then I photographed the facades in New York. [at the end of the 19-nineties]... I did the books at the end of the nineties, and I did the facades shortly after that.”

“No man ever said at the end of his days, "I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful about my soul."”

“I have too much brain for my head. It cannot play comfortably in its box.”

“I tried to kill it in my bed,
I gagged it with a pillow,
But awoke the nuns inside my head.”

“When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.”

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”