Steven Klein Quotes

The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

I really like cages.

When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that's when it dies.

I could quarantine forever.

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

If I never showed my face, it would kind of be easier.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

You have no idea how many times I’ve been barricaded inside a box in my life. I know it’s for my protection. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it. (Kiara)

It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.