If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.