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

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

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

"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."

"But my favorite work is always my next piece."

"It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The media's job is to question a premise."

"My art became very public."

"I've always been a fine artist."

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