As A New Yorker, I'm

That's Really A Very Different Experience: You Don't Have To Look To Be Understood. You're Already Understood.

. . . I Wrote A Letter To Thomas Pynchon Asking, Can I Have Your Permission To Try To Make An [adaptation] Of Your Book? And I Had No Idea That He Would Answer Me, Because He's Pretty Elusive. But He Did Send A Letter Back That Said, Yes, You Can Do That - As Long As The Only Instrument In The Opera Is A Banjo. I Thought, That's An Interesting Way Of Saying No.

Computers Are So Deeply Stupid. What Bother Me Most When They Talk About Technology Is They Don't Realize How Much More Exciting Their Minds Are. That Machine Is Stupid. And Boring. It Does Just A Few Things And Then It'll Crash. People Think, 'i Am On The Net, I Am In Touch With The World'. Wrong! The Point Is How We Work, Not How Machines Work.

Long Live The Beauty That Comes Down And Through And Onto All Of Us.

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.