Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
The earth is definitely doomed.
Well, I know I'm back in America now. I've been knocked unconscious.
From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an affinity for working with children, has none of his own. Other people's children are quite enough, thank you.
To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.
Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be. . . smelly.
Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.
A girl's got to have a few secrets.
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropologysociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas. '
I just find it really shitty that someone who never really produced anything, musically speaking, can just say, "I don't really like it. " It just sucks because you put so much work into a record and someone disapproves. "