I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.