It's A Little Hard To Speak When

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

. . . 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.

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!

Long Live The Beauty That Comes Down And Through And Onto All Of Us.

The Fewer Expectations You Have, The Better.