"Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy."

“Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.”

Source : "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.

“You know what I think the guy who reviewed the live show for Pitchfork suffers from? Shy/asshole confusion. I'm not an asshole. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone, but I'm just putting that out there. I just think people should know that I'm not trying too hard. I think some people are just bitter that they ended up reviewing the show rather than playing the show, perhaps.”

“Your Texas is no different than my Texas.”

“The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.”

“In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.”

Source : Richard Henry Pratt, Robert Marshall Utley (1979). “The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Its Origins, Purposes, Progress, and the Difficulties Surmounted”

“I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.”

“I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was.”

“I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.”