There Are Plenty Of Ways

I Always Wonder When People Have Any Kind Of Spiritual And Meditative Practice Especially If It's One Designed In Part To Help Them Cope With Things That Seem Unmanageable And To Cope With Something Like Death, If They're Able To Maintain That Practice And Maintain The Equanimity At The Time Of Death Whether It's, You Know, That Person's Or That Person's Loved One.

Audiences, Whether They're Seeing A Film Or A Reading Or Whatever It Is, A Concert, They Decide Very Quickly What Kind Of Show It Is, And Then They Judge It. They Judge The Rest Of The Thing By Whether It Conforms To Their Rules For What A Good Symphony Orchestra Would Be.

The Audience Creates Its Own Personality, I've Noticed, In The First Five Minutes. They Will Either Be Generous, Funny, Silly, Withholding, Academic, Analytical, Grudging. And I'm Fascinated With How That Gets Constructed, Because It Happens Right Away.

I Am A New Yorker, One; I'm An Artist, Two; I'm A Woman, Three.

I Have Written A Few Children's Books. The First Book That I Wrote Was For Children. It Was Called "the Package", And It Was A Mystery Story In Pictures. It Had No Words.