Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That’s how beautiful she looks.
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren’t necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they’re the things that make the biggest impression.
Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
I’m not sure what we’re running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won’t have to get on with our lives.
For years now, I’ve wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.
I spend most of my life just listening to people.
When we don’t know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you’ll never be totally happy.
My first time I jacked off, I thought I’d invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don’t know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
You have to jump into disaster with both feet.