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"The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself."
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"If the universe is anything, it should be fun."
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"It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak."
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"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."
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"No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was."
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"I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating."
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"The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be."
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"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun."
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"The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things."
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"Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun."
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"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"
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"It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety, TV confuses people."
Talent
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different."
Humanity
"I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me."
Empathy
"It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide 'This is a movie I don't like,' basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive."
Art
"It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would seel her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker."
Romance
"In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person - the 'journey of a particular 'hero, in the lingo of the mythologist Joseph Campbell - as a prism for understanding everything else."
Storytelling
"In a roundabout way, Boba Fett created Pearl Jam."
Influence
"Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously."
Media
"But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack."
Humor
"Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy."
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