Idle Nutt

“Fear is just the smell when ignorance takes a shit.”

“Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

“Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.”

“Too many parents and too many writers of children’s books don’t respect the fact that kids know a great deal and suffer a great deal.”

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I feel so relieved to be at the stage I’m at in my life right now…because if I want to wear my glasses, I’m wearing my glasses. If I want to pull my hair back, I’m pulling my hair back.

At some point it’s just not something that deserves a whole lot of time and attention. If others want to worry about it, I’ll let them do the worrying for a change.

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“Start with what you have. You won’t like what you’ve made ten years from now anyways, so don’t be precious about it. Put stuff out now. Use the mics you have, the computer you have, the instruments you have. More “stuff” won’t make you a better artist.”

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.”

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”

“One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we’ve got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well. It is extremely personal now, and you see in these primaries that the more people agree with each other on the issues, the more desperate they are to make the clear distinctions necessary to win, so the deeper the knife goes in.”

“The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.”

“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”