I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

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

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

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.