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First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.
When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.
Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.
When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.
But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.
It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.
Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.
It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.
People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.
Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do
Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.
In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.
We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.
We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.
You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.
A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.
Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time.
Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.
If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because I don't like having things on my face.
Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).
If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.
It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have an adversarial relationship with technology.
People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.