I’m really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster – with people who were doing likewise – because it’s really my greatest treasure now.
Suicide is very contagious.
If you’re male and you’re Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?
At the last minute, I couldn’t wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn’t want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone’s front stoop.
The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Griping isn’t the same as creating something. Rebelling isn’t rebuilding. Ridiculing isn’t replacing. We’ve taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
My point is, that if I’m honest, my life is all about me.
Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted.
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can’t deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can’t be explained and understood.
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
Didn’t I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.
How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?
Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.
It’s the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.
You could stab a knife right through my heart and you’d be too late.
I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.