The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is n...
When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower...
Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own breathing and heartbeat. Whether it was the serenity and security of being surrounded by this living liquid, or the total distraction ...
I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of lif...
Cartman: [after seeing Kenny's ghost] Mom I saw him, I saw Kenny! Mrs. Cartman: Oh, you poor dear! You've been through so much. Cartman: I bet him he couldn't light a fart on fire, and now he's all pissed off [gets shocked] Cartman: damn I can't say ...
Time had eroded all shock value.
I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.
I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
Every single day I'm shocked.
There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.
I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.
I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.
I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.
It's so difficult to shock America these days.
The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
