When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

I think women are excellent social critics.

When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.

You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them

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

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.