If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric circles of availability. There are Green Rooms within Green Rooms literally within Green Rooms. There are seven or eight degrees of exclusivity, and within each circle of exclusivity, everyone is so happy to be there, and they don't know that the next level exists.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.