It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

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

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.