Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

Damn it feels good to see people up on it.

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.