I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

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.