When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.