What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.