“Just having a certain kind of attitude can be magic.”

“Capitalism is not a synonym for free markets.”

“You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.”

“In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.”

“But time's too short to enjoy the moment. Shall we live in the future to allow ourselves to see what the world has to offer? To throw away the chances of now and disregared pain until yesterday?”

“male animals have a finite sum of energy that they can spend on testosterone or immunity to disease, but not both at the same time.”

“Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!”