That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.