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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ”
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ”
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? ”
I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me. ”
Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about. ”
I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique. ”
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life. ”
I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes. ”
The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two. ”
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass. ”