I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal.

I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

I am not what you see and hear.

TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.