When love is gone, there's always justice.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.