But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.

I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.