And so can you… — I don’t call myself a Christian, and I wouldn’t say I’m not a Christian either. Sometimes I say that I’m a closet christian (lowercase ‘c’), because I‘m a big fan of Jesus. He sounds like the model of what a man can be, and by man, I mean a human…

The body is an alternate brain, isn’t it — one that receives more precise, specific and unadulterated information than the grey matter…

The unanswerable question — What is the meaning of life? — is the hand-holding sweetheart of the answerable question, the one that gets…

When I was a very young woman (still a teenager), travel was my most successful technique for interior realignment. Getting out of my own/known culture into places where I had few or no clues about what was going on, threw me back upon my own resources — it allowed me…

I call myself an artist. ‘Artist,’ like art itself, is a highly mutable descriptor.

Why gangster family values are not conducive to large-scale problem-solving. — Questions to ask yourself if you are a gangster: How much can I get away with? How far can I game the system to get what I want? How many pussies can I grab and how many people can I shoot on 5th Avenue before someone tries to stop me? Why should I try to hide who/what I am…

This is so simple and true, and yet so deep. Unless you are a bullshit artist, seeing value in yourself requires a holy self-confidence and a feeling of connection with this art form we call life.

I had the jitters before the election, and I still have the jitters. — Before the election I’m thinking, if Trump wins, maybe I can move to another country. Maybe I can hide under the bed for four more years. Because aside from the substantive damage Trump does to everything he touches (like the Midas touch, only instead of everything turning to gold, it…

Because the joke is on us, and it’s not funny. — On the morning I woke to the news of Donald Trump’s positive test result for Covid-19, my first thought was, “Am I about to experience schadenfreude? Am I going to take pleasure or joy in this not very surprising, and yet extremely surprising, development? …