The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

I have to learn to hear music, to see beauty, and to find joy in silence

When you are made to pay for such insolence, I shall revel in your ruin.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.