Freedon Is A Scary Thing. Most People

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.

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 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.

Books Are The Way The Dead Talk To The Living.

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