You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.