The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun of itself if capitalism thought there was a buck in it.
Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.
We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it’s correct place.
I’m working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that’s the way it should be.
You can’t base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
We’ll never be as young as we are tonight.
The girl is infectious human waste, and she’s confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won’t commit to anything.
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. I am Jack’s Broken Heart.
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.
Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it’s their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they’re terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything’s fine.
I really believe it’s the moments we can’t talk about that become the rest of our lives. It’s the moments we can’t process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.
We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.