I think women are excellent social critics.

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

Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

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.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.