I'm Not Usually Where I Think I

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.

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

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.

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.