An enormous failure of the system has clearly been exposed, but this system failure is associated with the long-term failure of this country to deal responsibly and effectively with the structural problems of poverty in America.

I've never been afraid to fail.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

While it may not have been a total success, I don't look at it as a failure, What's frivolous, to me, is when [a politician who shall go nameless here] got up and started doing his politician's rhetoric. To me, this was a lot more interesting....To each his own.

If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.

I’m not trying to do it like that … I’m trying to do it like it hasn’t been done!