Amphetamines are the most American drug. You get so much done. You look terrific, and your middle name is Accomplishment... Your thyroid shuts down your natural production of thyroxine. But you still look terrific. And you are, you’re the American Dream. You are the constant-growth economy.
Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you’d die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited.
Here was reading as a covert act of revolution carried out in plain sight but recognized as such only by other men with the book.
As pessoas usavam o que chamavam de telefone porque odiavam ficar juntas umas das outras e morriam de medo de ficar sozinhas.
The toughest detail to deal with was the loneliness.
The entertainment value, the ability to titillate or provoke, came to be the litmus test of any new truth.
When did the future, Ellis once wrote on the back of a postcard, switch from being a promise to a threat?
What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us.
The worst aspect of loneliness was the silence.
Kid’s got this look like he’s just seen the wrong person naked riding a bicycle from behind.
The candelabras.
Three parts description. Two parts instruction. One part onomatopoeia. Mix to taste .
Her legs are crossed at the knee and ankle.
My guess is that people haven’t a clue how to get along. They need a structure, rules, and roles to play .
Hayati dogru duzgun yasamak icin egitilmisiz biz. Hata yapmamak icin. Ne kadar buyuk bir hata yaparsam, o kadar kurtulma ve gercek bir hayat yasama sansim olacagini fark ettim.
The perfume, all those dead whales in the cuts in her hands, it stings.
For the white man, his guilt was his biggest badge of accomplishment. Only whites killed the planet with global warming so only whites could save it. Their boasting never let up.
If you can wake up in a different place. If you can wake up in a different time. Why can’t you wake up as a different person?
If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom you’ll never really succeed. Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything.
If humor comes from anything, it arises from an immense feeling of relief.