I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.

You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.