There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

How can you live in the Northeast?

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.