I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.

Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly.

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.