Rant would tell people: “You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I’ll be anybody you want me to be.
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.
Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven’t already done...
Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need.
Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.
You can’t fool people into loving you.
I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.
Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.
And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can’t really control us. And since God can’t control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.
When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you’re less than the sum of your parts.
Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I’m happy.
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
More than one side? You’re Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.