All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
It's in great joy that we grasp truth.
Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.
Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.
I've always been entranced with theater.
I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness. "
I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.
The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.
Art is seduction, not rape.
. . . One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.
When the news is slow, or when there's just so many other responsibilities bearing down on me that I don't have the time to do it right, that's when it gets frustrating. As an artist, you just don't wanna put bad work out. So when you have to do it seven days a week, you're just gonna have some bad days and bad weeks and bad months and bad years.