Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

I will overcome every obstruction.

Evil is predicable

The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

I try to update as much as possible. You don't want to be in the past.