I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.

I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.

Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

We are doing a huge disservice to a dying world if a manifestation of the joy in us is not coming out of us.

Would you dare to walk with the beast on the dark side of the moon?

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.