Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.

There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?