Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

What people don't seem to ever understand is that any infrastructure that exists under your regime, in your current government, will be appropriated and inherited by the next regime. I mean, the KGB came out of the NKVD which came out of the Tsarist version of the same thing. And now, the FSB operates out of the old KGB building in Moscow. The infrastructure remains exactly the same. There's a little bit of reshuffling of personnel, and that's it. The way to make sure that there's no FSB today would have been for the Tsar to not have built an infrastructure for it in the 1800s.

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.