What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

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.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

In the end, the world returns to a grain.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.

Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

An ancient Scythian nomad skeleton buried with an eagle was reportedly excavated near Aktobe Gorge, Kazakhstan. Ancient petroglyphs in the Altai region depict eagle hunters, and inscribed Chinese stone reliefs show eagles perched on the arms of hunters in tunics, trousers, and boots, identified as northern nomads (1st to 2nd century A.D.).

I just want to play baseball.

I have no bigger goal than to eradicate racism, to grant Americans who have a different color of skin the right to disagree against the Left's style of orthodoxy.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly.

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to act as if it were impossible to fail.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.