A high church for the true mediocre.
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.
I’m hostile to men, I’m hostile to women, I’m hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I’m afraid of horses.
Cancer is the growth of madness denied.
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it’s about time.
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing.
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
When I read it, I don’t wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
We didn’t win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.
We’re all divided souls, we’ve got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you’re divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.
I no longer gave a sick dog’s drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public’s literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.
I guess all that’s left is to love the fire.
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.