"Itâ€™s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectatorâ€™s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artistâ€™s."

-- Samuel R. Delany

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“Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.”

Source : "Americans Must Be Crazy". static.wnd.com. April 12, 1999.
“... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.”
“I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.”
“My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.”
“Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.”
“I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well”
“It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“The army teaches boys to think like men.”

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