Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that’s so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it.
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.
People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
We are always dying, all the time. That’s what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.
I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I’m glad I’m married, and I love my wife. But there’s never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.
First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.
I look at camping the same way I look at horror movies. All the years that humans fought to get into caves and into shelters – it almost seems sacrilegious to go outside and sleep without a roof. We work so hard to have these things!
Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.
Flying to me isn’t scary, it’s just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I’m afraid to fly.
It’s possible this whole “Why do Latinos love Morrisey?” question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
Why don’t I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don’t like people, and that crowds are just collections of people. That seems like a very nihilistic way to look at the world.
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music ‘except country.’ People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.
Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.
This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn’t matter. You just live.
Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.