My goal is to be an engine of excitement in people’s lives.
All through that lunch I feigned interest in her cats, yes, cats, while psychically begging her to love me and interview me .
My purpose is to give people glorious stories to tell.
Es lo que ocurre en los casos de insomnio. Todo es muy lejano: la copia de la copia de una copia. No puedes tocar nada y nada puede tocarte. El insomnio te distancia de todo.
It feels bad, telling you all this. Spoiling the surprise, I mean. You’ll see it all yourself, soon enough. That is, if you live too long. Or if you just give up and go nuts ahead of schedule. My mom, Eva, even you, eventually everybody gets a bracelet.
You know how you look at ugly hunchback girls, and they are so lucky. Nobody drags them out at night so they can’t finish their doctorate thesis papers. They don’t get yelled at by fashion photographers if they get infected ingrown bikini hairs. You look at burn victims and think how much time they save not looking in mirrors to check their skin for sun damage.
When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay.
Telling the truth wasn’t sufficient power. As consolation the remaining journalists convinced themselves that no absolute truths existed. This new untruth they propagated as the new truth. The entertainment value, the ability to titillate or provoke, came to be the litmus test of any new truth.
Tu non sei un delicato e irripetibile fiocco di neve. Tu sei la stessa materia organica deperibile di chiunque altro e noi tutti siamo parte dello stesso cumulo in decomposizione.
Why I do this is to create heroes. Put people to the test.
He’d never anticipated that power would be this lonely.
I’m not so much a good friend as I’m the parent who never wants you to really grow up.
This is such a fine neighborhood, even the beer they leave out for the animals is imported from Germany or Mexico.
By writing, people present their lives as fiction and tackle their issues as a craft exercise. By redeeming their protagonist, they find their own redemption .
There is only the inevitable, there’s only one future. You don’t have a choice. The bad news is we don’t have any control. The good news is you can’t make any mistakes.
Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture, you never want to go back to reality .
Sometimes,” Denny says and sniffs, “it’s like I want to be beaten and punished. It’s okay if there isn’t a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don’t want to be the center of my own universe.
The uglier the fashions, the worse places we’d have to pose to make them look good. Junkyards. Slaughterhouses. Sewage treatment plants. It’s the ugly bridesmaid tactic where you only look good by comparison.
I just didn’t want to be fixed. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn’t want them cured. None of the little secrets inside me wanted to be found and explained away. By myths. By my childhood. By chemistry. My fear was, what would be left?
So, Marla, how do you like them apples?