The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a...
Benny Blanco: Hey, my name is Benny Blanco from the Bronx. Carlito: You know me? Benny Blanco: Yeah, I know you, you're Carlito Brigante motherfucker to the max, that's who you are! Carlito: Well, I don't know you. So, I don't owe you, Saso does. My ...
Marwood: How dare you tell him I'm a toilet trader! Withnail: Tactical necessity. If I hadn't told him you were active we'd never have got the cottage. Marwood: I'd never have wanted it, not with him in it! Withnail: I never thought he'd come all thi...
[first lines] Professor X: [voiceover] Mutants. Since the discovery of their existence they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred. Across the planet, debate rages. Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new sp...
Donald Kimball: Huey Lewis and the News. Great stuff! I just bought it on my way here. You heard it? Patrick Bateman: Never. I mean I don't really like singers. Donald Kimball: Not a big music fan, huh? Patrick Bateman: No, I like music. Just they're...
Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is ...
Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a petri dish of mendacity she had shared with her faithless husband, and share...
Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severa...
For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by science, or is about science. On the linguistic level, the new words coined by scientists to describe their new discoveries form a giant growing lexico...
Nicholas: So, you've played recently? New Member Ted: Oh, about a year ago. I was working in Los Angeles. Nicholas: I hear the London office is very good, too. It just sounds like a lot of fantasy, role-playing nonsense. New Member Ted: [leans in] Yo...
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
Pain was a fascinating horror
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
When they are all thinking alike, they aren't thinking at all.
Only memories have a future.
They all come innocent in court.
I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.
There is no new knowledge, it already exists in the universe.