Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.