I don’t know if you ever think about it but things sound so different in the dark. I always think, you know how sometimes you’re sitting around the table talking, and suddenly the lights go off. And then for a second, everyone falls really silent. No one says anything. And everyone’s really careful about the sounds they make. You just become really conscious of the way you sound. And everything that you say. And every word that comes out of your mouth.

I think sometimes –  for people who’ve forgotten what it is to communicate – they should try just sitting in a room and switching the lights off. I think we should do that a lot more often. I think it will remind us of what’s really important. Because in the dark, you really… hear. More importantly, you listen. You listen to what people are saying. Since we’re deprived of some sense of reality, it’s easier to open up to higher sensibilities.

I don’t know if you ever think about things like that. Do you?

I do.

But I spend a lot of time on my own. And, a lot of time in the dark.