Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.