The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.