The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
It's nice to make a project where you can show the full breadth of who you are.
I have a lifetime project which consists of boxes and boxes filled with envelopes on which people have written my name. I've always thought of it as a kind of double portrait, and a portrait of our relationship, which in some cases means nothing. But it makes me feel connected.
As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.
Instead of imposing something, let it make itself.
Doing a job well is the thing. It's its own thing.
Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.
Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.
Ambition has no rest.
I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and building up a personal profile for you so that they can direct you in particular ways by their effective control over the internet, and that doesn't happen of course.
People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.