Nobody told me my life would ever get this dangerous. I'm scared of the cold, of course. That's why I'm here, in the middle of it. People lie to each other, that's just the way it is. They learn to lie when they're six years old or earlier. The best way to deal with it is just to be creative. We're a nation of confidence men and tricksters. The way to get ahead in this world is to rip other people off, that's all there is to it. There's only so much to go around, and you just gotta keep it in circulation. People who hang onto it for too long lose their right to it anyway. Think of it as giving people's property a little exercise. It works that way for books, too. What good is an idea if it's been sitting around in a book for three hundred years? Take it out and give it a little air. You gotta learn how to sell yourself. Anyone who wants to survive on his own terms has got to learn to sell himself. You gotta persuade people to take care of you, to support your lifestyle. We're surrounded by signs, and what we need to do is learn how to manipulate them in our favor. I wish I was a musician. Musicians know how to turn electricity into sex energy, and sex energy into money. I'm scared of the cold. That's why I'm here, in the middle of it. Getting somewhere in this world is a process of learning to be hard. No one ever teaches you to be hard, it's something you learn for yourself. A hard person can be soft when he wants to be, but a soft person can't be hard that easily. You gotta be more dangerous than your environment. The message I like to tell people is, I am exactly what you need. And half of the time, they believe me! When I was a kid, I used to wonder what was going on behind windows that weren't mine. Here, I've been freed from wonder. I either already know what's going on, or I don't need to know. There's nothing here that's dangerous to me. I'm ahead of it.