Since the world has changed so much, the same values don’t lead to the same choices anymore.
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else.
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?
Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.
Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
I hated myself for going, why couldn’t I be the kind of person who stays?
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.
I wanted to cry but I didn’t, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.
Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.
But I still couldn’t figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.