Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.

one day my best friend said to me 'Jess, you rock a lot of polka dots' and that was the deal breaker, now we're mortal enemies

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.

If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.