We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money