We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.