I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

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.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

I think women are excellent social critics.

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.