The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

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.

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

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.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.