I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.
I think there is a Paris inside us all.
Is that all time is – our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?
Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.
Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?
The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to’the present’.
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.