The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.

Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.