“I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring a...” — Joey Skaggs Quote

“I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.”

“Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.”

“But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.”

“The media's job is to question a premise.”

“When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.”

“If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.”

“Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.”

“You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.”

“We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.”

“Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.”

“The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.”

“The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.”