180 Quotes by Laurie Anderson

Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

. . . 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.

There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

I'm a real workaholic.