Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

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

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

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.