Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.

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

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.

I think women are excellent social critics.