Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven.

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.