Nobody has your eyes. They can look at the exact same thing & could never see what you see.
America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care much about the idea of normal - that's very abstract to me. I think that perfection is practically unattainable but imperfection is right at hand. So that's why I love monsters: because they represent a side of us we should actually embrace and celebrate.
In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist. . . . Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit. . . We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.
You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.
Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.
A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.