“I love the bullshit morning shows. They’re so stupid but I love them.”

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it’s not than it’s a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is – along with Jazz – the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

British films are all “room with a view and a staircase and a pond.”

Nationality was – and is – far less a divide than age… because “everything is global, man!”

We’re a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that’s true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That’s true about countries, too. We’re constantly telling ourselves the American story.

Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it.

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe’s, thought-I-was, isn’t-I-is’s… And everybody in your business.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.

I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.

Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It’s love without strings. It’s ideal.