"French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable."

“No matter what album I’ve ever made or ever will work on, it’s me trying to achieve this feeling I had listening to music when I was 8 years old. Just being mesmerized by the production and the mystique and the stories.”

“I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.”

“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”

“She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?”

“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”

Source : Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.21, City Lights Books

“We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic designers, the painters, the DJs, I mean everybody, the writers. We can't allow ourselves to feel as if we're not important in the equation when we are everything!”

“All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.”

“The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.”