Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don’t want it.
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist – I’m happy to see the work.
As a New Yorker, I’m someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I’ve never been in an audience like that, and I’ve never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, “This is the most boring thing I’ve ever seen.”
A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I’m using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
As an artist I’d choose the thing that’s beautiful more than the one that’s true.
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody’s right and nobody’s wrong.
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren’t neutral.
I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That’s probably the most pretentious thing I’ve said.
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist – that it’s a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
The problem with prototypes is they don’t always work.
I don’t care about being famous or having a lot of people go, “She’s really good.”
That’s really a very different experience: You don’t have to look to be understood. You’re already understood.
I’m thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn’t there before: there it is – I made it! That’s pretty powerful, and that’s the power that Buddhists give to every single person.