Are you sharp or square?

"After 9/11 half of America went to war and the rest went shopping."

You have not much future there. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift.

The work is on your mind so much that when someone asks you to talk about it, it’s like, “Which part?” [...] I’m afraid the more I talk about it and try to make sense of it in my mind, the more I’ll jinx it. My friend Jeff Elrod once saw a painting in his head, and then he couldn’t make it. We used to share a studio, and he did these abstract ( Read more... )

"A man like me is dead in places other men feel liberated."

"If we're not gonna make it, it's gotta be you that gets out, cause I'm not capable. I'm fucking Irish, I'll deal with something being wrong for the rest of my life."

"...A new paradigm based on the recognition that our understanding never corresponds to reality, and the divergence is an important but not determining factor in shaping the course of events."
Soros

"The world isn't fair, truth isn't fair."

"If you haven’t been to Shibuya, there are high-rise malls catering specifically to teenage girls with dozens of stores specializing in the narrowest niches, like Madonna circa “Like A Virgin” or That One Girl From The “Hip Hop Hooray” Video. It is crazy. And awesome. And makes you want to buy things." (I used to talk about this forever with her ( Read more... )

Having your future told by someone who ain't got one.