If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one’s chest, to sing one’s song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, “Hey, listen to me.” Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.
Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.
So I live in Los Angeles, and it’s kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.
Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it’s the embodiment, it’s the apotheosis of the human experience, it’s the way we summarize ourselves.
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.
These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people.
We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.
Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.
I was kind of sweet kid, according my mother, and my recollections. Thoughtful and good, but kind of alone – although I didn’t interpret it that way, as such. Children never interpret these things. They think they understand logically.
The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
When I’m not actually doing my work, I’m planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.
I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.
One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
Why should it be illegal to sell something that’s perfectly legal to give away?
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Surround yourself with what you love.
I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.