All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

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

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

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

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

The things people really want are love, connection, and purpose.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel