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Writers Want To Summarize: What Does This Mean? What Did We Learn From This? That's A Very 19th-century Way Of Thinking About Art, Because It Assumes That It Should Make Our Lives Better Or Teach Us Something.

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I'm A Real Workaholic.

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.

You Know, I Can See Two Tiny Pictures Of Myself And There's One In Each Of Your Eyes. And They're Doin' Everything I Do. Every Time I Light A Cigarette, They Light Up Theirs. I Take A Drink And I Look In And They're Drinkin' Too. It's Drivin' Me Crazy. It's Drivin' Me Nuts.

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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 Realized Why Movie Scores Are Mostly Strings, Because It Really Frees Your Eyes To Look Around.

I Don't Care About Being Famous Or Having A Lot Of People Go, "she's Really Good."

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History Is An Angel Being Blown Backwards Into The Future

The World Is A Strange And Wonderful Place.

Art Can Be Engaged In The World Without Being Specifically Politically Engaged.

I Realized Why Movie Scores Are Mostly Strings, Because It Really Frees Your Eyes To Look Around.

What Happens When You're In A Crash Is You Join A Crash Club, And You Talk Endlessly About Your Crash Because You Don't Want To Bore Your Friends With It. And They've Heard About The Crash So Many Times.

They Say That Heaven Is Like Tv... A Perfect Little World, That Doesn't Really Need You.

The Fewer Expectations You Have, The Better.

I Kind Of Didn't Believe The Doctors When They Came Over And They Said You're Not Going To Be Able To Walk Again. I'm Sorry To Tell You This. I Thought Who Is This Guy? I Just Was So Impatient With The Whole Thing. I Knew I Was Going To Walk Again. I Knew That I Was Going To Do That.

I Think Women Are Excellent Social Critics.

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

Different Experiences

Freedon Is A Scary Thing. Most People Don't Want It.

If You're A Young Artist, Wondering What To Call Yourself, Consider 'multimedia Artist.' It's So Vague. Then, No One Can Say, 'hey, How Come You're A Jazz Person, And You're Making A Pop Opera?

Freedon Is A Scary Thing. Most People Don't Want It.

Don't Be Afraid Of Anyone. Imagine Your Life If You're Not Afraid Of Anyone.

I Really Trust Audiences As Having Excellent Taste, For The Most Part.

I'm One Of The First Americans Who Wasn't A Torturer Or An Interrogator.

Literature Is The Safe And Traditional Vehicle Through Which We Learn About The World And Pass On Values From On Generation To The Next. Books Save Lives.

I Know A Lot Of People Who Have Weird Specialties That Are Not Taught In Schools; They're Things That You Learn In Life.

Being An Artist Is A Totally Godlike Thing To Do - And I Have A God Complex.

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I Always Feel Like If Someone Has Stage Fright, I Really Try And Say, "listen, These People Want You To Succeed, They Want To Have A Good Evening. They Want To See Something Really Great. They Don't Want To See Something Crappy. They Don't. They Want To Be At Something Really Special."

Paradise Is Exactly Like Where You Are Right Now Only Much Much Better.

If You're A Young Artist, Wondering What To Call Yourself, Consider 'multimedia Artist.' It's So Vague. Then, No One Can Say, 'hey, How Come You're A Jazz Person, And You're Making A Pop Opera?

All Of Nature Talks To Me - If I Could Just Figure Out What It's Saying - Trees Are Swinging In The Breeze. They're Talking To Me. Insects Are Rubbing Their Legs Together. They're All Talking. They're Talking To Me.

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As An Artist I'd Choose The Thing That's Beautiful More Than The One That's True.

People Only Stutter At The Beginning Of The Word. They're Not Afraid When They Get To The End Of The Word. There's Just Regret.

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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.

Technology Is The Campfire Around Which We Tell Our Stories.

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."

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.

When You Meet A Man Who Is Broken, Pick Him Up And Carry Him. When You Meet A Woman Who’s Broken, Put Her All Into Your Arms. Cause We Don’t Know Where We Come From … We Don’t Know Where We Are.

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I've Been Trying To Avoid Goal-oriented Behavior.

I Wanted To Stay Hooked Because It Was The First Time I've Been Part Of The Tradition Where Forgetting Was Just Fine. You Do It, You Try, You Forget, You Fail.

I Think A Lot Of People In Washington Are Extremely Suspicious Of Nasa.

I've Never Really Had A Hobby, Unless You Count Art, Which The Irs Once Told Me I Had To Declare As A Hobby Since I Hadn't Made Money With It.

Literature Is The Safe And Traditional Vehicle Through Which We Learn About The World And Pass On Values From On Generation To The Next. Books Save Lives.

I'm One Of The First Americans Who Wasn't A Torturer Or An Interrogator.

It's The Tradition Of American Writers Getting Away In Order To See The Country - To Get A Better View.

I So Much Appreciate It When Anybody Tries To Make Something And Tries To Be An Artist - I'm Happy To See The Work.

What Happens When You're In A Crash Is You Join A Crash Club, And You Talk Endlessly About Your Crash Because You Don't Want To Bore Your Friends With It. And They've Heard About The Crash So Many Times.

I Believe That The Purpose Of Death Is The Release Of Love.

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

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

I Wanted To Impress People Because I Was Kind Of A Kid Who Was Lost In The Crowd - Was Sort Of My, Feeling About Childhood Was Being Part Of A Big Family.

Why Do You Have To Translate And Decode Things? Just Let The Image Be. It Will Have A Special Kind Of Reality That It Won't Once It's Decoded.

I Wanted To Stay Hooked Because It Was The First Time I've Been Part Of The Tradition Where Forgetting Was Just Fine. You Do It, You Try, You Forget, You Fail.

You Know, For Every Dollar A Man Makes A Woman Makes 63 Cents. Now, Fifty Years Ago That Was 62 Cents. So, With That Kind Of Luck, It’ll Be The Year 3,888 Before We Make A Buck.

I'm An Average Enough Person To Point To The Things I've Gotten To See That Are Awe-inspiring.

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Books Are The Way The Dead Talk To The Living.

People Who Were Born Alone Are Defined By Feelings Like "who's Gonna Be With Me When I Die? Who Will Ever Understand Me? Will I Always Feel So Alone? Maybe If I Write A Book..." And You Forget That That Doesn't Help You So Much.

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The Right To Carry A Gun Has Nothing To Do With The Rights Of Other People.

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You Can Do Great Things With Low-tech Stuff.

When Love Is Gone, There's Always Justice. And When Justice Is Gone, There's Always Force. And When Force Is Gone, There's Always Mom. Hi, Mom!

As An Artist I'd Choose The Thing That's Beautiful More Than The One That's True.

They Say That Heaven Is Like Tv... A Perfect Little World, That Doesn't Really Need You.

I Think Illusion Is One Of The Most Interesting Things That I've Found To Think About. Just Look At Yesterday, And What You Were Doing, And How Important It Was, And How Nonexistent It Is Now! How Dreamlike It Is! Same Thing With Tomorrow. So Where Are We Living?

I Think Artists Who Are Attracted To Working On The Net Will Adjust Their Work To The Capabilities Of A Very Small Screen.

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

Different Experiences

The Only Stuff I Don't Like Are Broadway Musicals. I Hate Them. I Don't Even Like To Talk About It. I Can't Bear Musicals.

So Many Things Have Happened To Me In My Life That I Could Be Phobic About.

I Wanted To Impress People Because I Was Kind Of A Kid Who Was Lost In The Crowd - Was Sort Of My, Feeling About Childhood Was Being Part Of A Big Family.

Besides All Those Whaling Details, Moby Dick Is About Someone Who's Looking For Something So Huge, Something They've Wanted All Their Life, Yet They Know When They Find It, It Will Kill Them.

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.

I Don't Care About Being Famous Or Having A Lot Of People Go, "she's Really Good."

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.

I'm Actually Not Someone Who Believes In Heaven Or Anything Like That.

My Job Is To Make Images And Leave The Decision-making And Conclusion-draw Ing To Other People.

I Think Women Are Excellent Social Critics.

Dogs Don't Just Like Us, They Love Us, And They Admire Us. The Big Reason They Admire Us Is We Invented Cars. They're Like, "yes, We Get To Go Somewhere!" Go Somewhere Faster, With Their Head Out The Window, And Their Ears, Like, "yes! Yes!"

I Think Illusion Is One Of The Most Interesting Things That I've Found To Think About. Just Look At Yesterday, And What You Were Doing, And How Important It Was, And How Nonexistent It Is Now! How Dreamlike It Is! Same Thing With Tomorrow. So Where Are We Living?

I Kind Of Didn't Believe The Doctors When They Came Over And They Said You're Not Going To Be Able To Walk Again. I'm Sorry To Tell You This. I Thought Who Is This Guy? I Just Was So Impatient With The Whole Thing. I Knew I Was Going To Walk Again. I Knew That I Was Going To Do That.

If I'm Confused, I Just Spend Some Time Looking At The Sky And Falling Into It. It's Not A Meditation That Anyone Taught Me, It's Something I've Done My Whole Life, And Liked Doing, And It Made Me Feel Like Nothing.

You Know The Reason I Love The Stars Is Because We Can't Hurt Them: We Can't Burn Them, We Can't Melt Them , We Can't Make Them Overflow, We Can't Flood Them Or Burn Them Up—so We Keep Reacing For Them

I've Never Really Had A Hobby, Unless You Count Art, Which The Irs Once Told Me I Had To Declare As A Hobby Since I Hadn't Made Money With It.

I Know A Lot Of People Who Have Weird Specialties That Are Not Taught In Schools; They're Things That You Learn In Life.

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.

When You Follow Your Thoughts And Watch Them Attach To Certain Things, It Makes Certain Things Real And Other Things Unreal, And You Realize That This Is All Created By Your Mind.

. . . 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.

I Have Written A Lot About Snakes. There's Something Pretty Primordial About It.

You Know, For Every Dollar A Man Makes A Woman Makes 63 Cents. Now, Fifty Years Ago That Was 62 Cents. So, With That Kind Of Luck, It’ll Be The Year 3,888 Before We Make A Buck.

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.

My Secret Dream Is To Write An Epic Poem. That's Probably The Most Pretentious Thing I've Said.

I Believe That The Purpose Of Death Is The Release Of Love.

Some Friends Of Mine Work In An Office. They Were Getting Really Nervous From Their Coffee Breaks, So They Started To Have Wig Breaks. They Tried On Wigs For 15 Minutes. They Found This Relaxing. So That's Wig Therapy.

There Are Plenty Of Ways You Can Play The Game Of Fighting And Really Seem To Be Fighting Without Going For The Jugular.

Art Is About Paying Attention.

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.

At The School Of Visual Arts In New York, You Can Get Your Degree In Net Art, Which Is Really A Fantastic Way Of Thinking Of Theater In New Ways.

You Need To Try To Master The Ability To Feel Sad Without Actually Being Sad.

Dogs Don't Just Like Us, They Love Us, And They Admire Us. The Big Reason They Admire Us Is We Invented Cars. They're Like, "yes, We Get To Go Somewhere!" Go Somewhere Faster, With Their Head Out The Window, And Their Ears, Like, "yes! Yes!"

Technology Today Is The Campfire Around Which We Tell Our Stories. There's This Attraction To Light And To This Kind Of Power, Which Is Both Warm And Destructive. We're Especially Drawn To The Power. Many Of The Images Of Technology Are About Making Us More Powerful, Extending What We Can Do. Unfortunately, 95 Percent Of This Is Hype, Because I Think We're Powerful Without 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.

I Just Sort Of Wish People Would Dance Differently. It Reminds Me Of Teenage Sex.

When I Was Four, I Was A Kind Of Sky Worshipper. I Would Look At The Sky, And I Wanted To Evaporate Into The Sky - I Loved The Sky. I Loved Looking At The Trees, Just Because They Touched The Sky.

It's Just Such A Great Miracle When Things Do Work, And They Work For Such A Wild Variety Of Crazy Reasons.

We Want To Dedicate Our Music Tonight To The Great Opportunity That We All Have To Begin To Truly Understand The Events Of The Past Few Days And To Act Upon Them With Courage And With Compassion As We Make Our Plans To Live In A Completely New World.

I Really Like Books That You Can Kind Of Hear As Much As Think About, That Are So Graphic And Visual.

The Best Thing About The Term 'performance Artist' Is That It Includes Just About Everything You Might Want To Do.

I'm An Average Enough Person To Point To The Things I've Gotten To See That Are Awe-inspiring.

I Didn't Really Understand That Vipassana Is A Relatively New Form Of Buddhism That Was Based On The Storage Of Pain. So The Idea Is That Every Time You Don't Scream, That's Your Buddhist Side.

I Don't Take Compliments So Well. I Always Hang My Head And Shuffle And Kind Of Try To Immediately Forget.

Don't Be Afraid Of Anyone. Imagine Your Life If You're Not Afraid Of Anyone.

If There Are Bases On The Moon, That Would Be The End Of The Moon As We Know It.

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.

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.

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.

It's Good To Take A Longer View And Think, What Would I Really Like To Do If I Had No Limitations Whatsoever?

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.

No Single Person Who Has Ever Lived Will Be Able To Tell You What Happens. Period. Nobody's Right And Nobody's Wrong.

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.

People Who Were Born Alone Are Defined By Feelings Like "who's Gonna Be With Me When I Die? Who Will Ever Understand Me? Will I Always Feel So Alone? Maybe If I Write A Book..." And You Forget That That Doesn't Help You So Much.

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.

I Think A Lot Of People In Washington Are Extremely Suspicious Of Nasa.

Performance Art Is About Joy, About Making Something That's So Full Of Kind Of A Wild Joy That You Really Can't Put Into Words.

As A New Yorker, I'm Someone Who Lives On An Island And Looks Across To America.

People Are Really Suffering These Days. There's A Lot Of Corporate Triumph And A Lot Of Personal Despair As They Wonder What Are They Working For.

Art Can Be Engaged In The World Without Being Specifically Politically Engaged.

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.

I Really Trust Audiences As Having Excellent Taste, For The Most Part.

Art Is About Paying Attention.

Technology Is The Campfire Around Which We Tell Our Stories.

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.

I Don't Take Compliments So Well. I Always Hang My Head And Shuffle And Kind Of Try To Immediately Forget.

Besides All Those Whaling Details, Moby Dick Is About Someone Who's Looking For Something So Huge, Something They've Wanted All Their Life, Yet They Know When They Find It, It Will Kill Them.

Writers Want To Summarize: What Does This Mean? What Did We Learn From This? That's A Very 19th-century Way Of Thinking About Art, Because It Assumes That It Should Make Our Lives Better Or Teach Us Something.

The Best Thing About The Term 'performance Artist' Is That It Includes Just About Everything You Might Want To Do.

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.

When Love Is Gone, There's Always Justice.

I Really Like Books That You Can Kind Of Hear As Much As Think About, That Are So Graphic And Visual.

A Lot Of Artists Who Have A Certain Style Are Expected To More Or Less Keep Doing Their Style. It's So Easy To Get Into That Rut Of Production.

It's A Little Hard To Speak When You're Not Supposed To Move.

Being An Artist Is A Totally Godlike Thing To Do - And I Have A God Complex.

. . . 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.

Last Night, I Had That Dream Again. I Dreamt I Had To Take A Test, In A Dairy Queen, On Another Planet.

Last Night, I Had That Dream Again. I Dreamt I Had To Take A Test, In A Dairy Queen, On Another Planet.

People Are Really Suffering These Days. There's A Lot Of Corporate Triumph And A Lot Of Personal Despair As They Wonder What Are They Working For.

My Work Is More About Trying To Ask Good Questions And Not Trying To Come Up With Big Shows. Every Fashion Company Is Doing That, Every Car Company Is Doing That.

It's The Tradition Of American Writers Getting Away In Order To See The Country - To Get A Better View.

I'm Not Usually Where I Think I Am. It's Kind Of Spooky.

We Want To Dedicate Our Music Tonight To The Great Opportunity That We All Have To Begin To Truly Understand The Events Of The Past Few Days And To Act Upon Them With Courage And With Compassion As We Make Our Plans To Live In A Completely New World.

No Single Person Who Has Ever Lived Will Be Able To Tell You What Happens. Period. Nobody's Right And Nobody's Wrong.

Books Are The Way The Dead Talk To The Living.

Performance Art Is About Joy, About Making Something That's So Full Of Kind Of A Wild Joy That You Really Can't Put Into Words.

You Know, I Can See Two Tiny Pictures Of Myself And There's One In Each Of Your Eyes. And They're Doin' Everything I Do. Every Time I Light A Cigarette, They Light Up Theirs. I Take A Drink And I Look In And They're Drinkin' Too. It's Drivin' Me Crazy. It's Drivin' Me Nuts.

The World Is A Strange And Wonderful Place.

When You Meet A Man Who Is Broken, Pick Him Up And Carry Him. When You Meet A Woman Who’s Broken, Put Her All Into Your Arms. Cause We Don’t Know Where We Come From … We Don’t Know Where We Are.

I Didn't Really Understand That Vipassana Is A Relatively New Form Of Buddhism That Was Based On The Storage Of Pain. So The Idea Is That Every Time You Don't Scream, That's Your Buddhist Side.

There Are Plenty Of Ways You Can Play The Game Of Fighting And Really Seem To Be Fighting Without Going For The Jugular.

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.

The Fewer Expectations You Have, The Better.

Shining In The Midnight Moonlight, While The King Sings Love Me Tender.

So Many Things Have Happened To Me In My Life That I Could Be Phobic About.

I'm Actually Not Someone Who Believes In Heaven Or Anything Like That.

I'm A Real Workaholic.

It's Just Such A Great Miracle When Things Do Work, And They Work For Such A Wild Variety Of Crazy Reasons.

Why Do You Have To Translate And Decode Things? Just Let The Image Be. It Will Have A Special Kind Of Reality That It Won't Once It's Decoded.

I Just Sort Of Wish People Would Dance Differently. It Reminds Me Of Teenage Sex.

If I'm Confused, I Just Spend Some Time Looking At The Sky And Falling Into It. It's Not A Meditation That Anyone Taught Me, It's Something I've Done My Whole Life, And Liked Doing, And It Made Me Feel Like Nothing.

The Problem With Prototypes Is They Don't Always Work.

History Is An Angel Being Blown Backwards Into The Future

And There Was A Beutiful View But Nobody Could See Cause Everybody On The Island Was Saying Look At Me! Look At Me.

Life Goes By So Fast. It's Really - And A Lot Of Times Things Happen So Fast You Don't Know - How Should I React.

Paradise Is Exactly Like Where You Are Right Now Only Much Much Better.

It's Good To Take A Longer View And Think, What Would I Really Like To Do If I Had No Limitations Whatsoever?

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.

As A New Yorker, I'm Someone Who Lives On An Island And Looks Across To America.

At The School Of Visual Arts In New York, You Can Get Your Degree In Net Art, Which Is Really A Fantastic Way Of Thinking Of Theater In New Ways.

The Only Stuff I Don't Like Are Broadway Musicals. I Hate Them. I Don't Even Like To Talk About It. I Can't Bear Musicals.

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.

My Work Is More About Trying To Ask Good Questions And Not Trying To Come Up With Big Shows. Every Fashion Company Is Doing That, Every Car Company Is Doing That.

All Of Nature Talks To Me - If I Could Just Figure Out What It's Saying - Trees Are Swinging In The Breeze. They're Talking To Me. Insects Are Rubbing Their Legs Together. They're All Talking. They're Talking To Me.

The Problem With Prototypes Is They Don't Always Work.

When Love Is Gone, There's Always Justice.

Technology Today Is The Campfire Around Which We Tell Our Stories. There's This Attraction To Light And To This Kind Of Power, Which Is Both Warm And Destructive. We're Especially Drawn To The Power. Many Of The Images Of Technology Are About Making Us More Powerful, Extending What We Can Do. Unfortunately, 95 Percent Of This Is Hype, Because I Think We're Powerful Without It.

A Lot Of Words In English Confuse The Idea Of Life And Electricity, Like The Word Livewire.

It's A Little Hard To Speak When You're Not Supposed To Move.

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