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"Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."
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"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."

"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."

"I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back."

"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."

"The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act."

"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed."

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."

"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."
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