30 Quotes by Emil Ferris

Sometimes a thing happens that's so bad that it feels like things should be made to look on the outside, the way they feel on the inside.

...who'd walk to school on Monday and who'd have to pass the smoking heap of what used to be their neighborhoods because when adults are haunted, it's the kids who get the worst frights...The word "aftermath" came to mind. I guess it means the time after something terrible happens when you do the math to figure out what has been added and what's been subtracted.

Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism.Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell.

Never let anyone's darkness provoke you into your own midnight.

Deeze says that most things in life aren't right or wrong. He says there's not too much black or white. To his eyes most stuff is like pencil shading. Lots of shades of gray. Mama says it's different. She believes it's either right or wrong. Me? I think they're both wrong. For me it's like a photograph. You have to look close. It looks like shades of gray, but it's really lots and lots of tiny dots of inky black on a perfect page of white,

Two weeks ago we learned about the "cephalophore" saints like St. Denis here who carry their own heads... if you love the kind of stuff I do, being Catholic is the way to go... that is... if you can overlook the nuns.

I didn't want to be a woman – being a monster was the best solution

I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.