We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

My art became very public.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

I've always been a fine artist.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

Celebrations of anniversaries of disasters, such as nuclear power plant meltdowns or political assassinations, provide opportunities, as do holidays.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

In my life, it's always been about who I'm going to collaborate with. Less important to me is what the subject is.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls.

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.

I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.

I got off the school bus every day at the driving range. I'd hit balls and goof around all day out there. I picked up balls by hand every night. That was my job.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

Models are a business, and they have to treat themselves as a business, which means they have to take care of themselves and give up all the young joys.

Morning TV is about habits. What you really need is for viewers to find you, get comfortable with you, make you part of their mornings. If you can make news, deliver things they value, you can be successful.

Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.

when we give cheerfully and accept gratefully everyone is blessed.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

Hollywood is full of men who need wraparound mirrors so that they never have a moment when they can't check themselves out. I love guys who don't worry about what they look like, who aren't aware of how attractive they are.

Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.

By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.