There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.

Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.

Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.

If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.