When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

I've always been a fine artist.

The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy

Stop waiting around for your life to get better and start getting better with your thoughts, decisions and actions.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.