Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.