It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

- Ken Baumann

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

- Ken Baumann

Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do I respect myself?” A corollary to this…

- Ken Baumann

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

- Ken Baumann

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

- Ken Baumann

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex comm…

- Ken Baumann

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

- Ken Baumann

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

- Ken Baumann

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

- Ken Baumann