One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

The future is a process, not a destination.

SEE what you think.

I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well.

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I'm grateful every single day.

I've always wanted to make movies.

Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication.

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea.