Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.

There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

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