The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.