You Need To Try To

. . . 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.

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

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

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 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.