The doorman blew his nose and something went into his handkerchief with the good slap of a pitch into a catcher’s mitt.
I tell Marla about the woman in Dear Abby who married a handsome successful mortician and on their wedding night, he made her soak in a tub of ice water until her skin was freezing to the touch, and then he made her lie in bed completely still while he had intercourse with her cold inert body. The funny thing is this woman had done this as a newlywed, and gone on to do it for the next ten years of marriage and now she was writing to Dear Abby to ask if Abby thought it meant something.
Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born. Resurrected.
What do you get yourself into every weekend?” I just don’t want to die without a few scars, I say. It’s nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of a dealer’s showroom in 1955, I always think, what a waste.
Relax, Brandy says, Whatever you’re thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they’re doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is cooperative effort.
There, drunk in a bar where no one was watching and no one would care, I asked Tyler what he wanted me to do. Tyler said, “I want you to hit me as hard as you can.
For the rest of my life, a different me will pick up this book again and again, read every page and never feel as if I’ve ever finished it because I myself am never finished.
Arson. Assault. Mischief and Misinformation.
In most hospitals, Nurse Flamingo means a fire. Dr. Blaze means a fire. Dr. Green means a suicide. Dr. Blue means somebody stopped breathing.
Maybe we didn’t need a father to complete ourselves.
I want you to know more than just what people think is safe to tell you,” she said.
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? Four minutes. I tongue the gun barrel into my cheek and say, you want to be a legend, Tyler, man, I’ll make you a legend. I’ve been here from the beginning. I remember everything.
Me, I’m six years old, again, and taking messages back and forth between my estranged parents. I hated this when I was six. I hate it now.
We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. “We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.
La persona que amas y la que te ama nunca es la misma persona.
How what looks cool later on always looks crazy at first.” “If numbers could explain the physical world, words would explain the invisible one.
I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn’t born, he’s made, and more and more of them are being made by women. After long enough, you just roll over and accept the fact that you’re a sexist, bigoted, insensitive, crude, cretinist cretin.
When she’s in love, nothing can make her sad; however, when she’s not in love, nothing can make her happy.
People will jump through hoops if you just make them feel like a god.
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving them an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy.