Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy.
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In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
If you don’t quit following me, I will kill every man you’ve got. I’ll burn down your house and rearrange your furniture. I will not pray for you and not for your children and not for your children’s...
Every night, we’re all having multiple metaphysical experiences, wholly constructed by our subconscious. Almost one-third of our lives happens inside surreal mental projections we create without tryin...
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.
There’s one kind of writing that’s always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterating how stupid it obviously is. This is the lowest form of criticism, easily accomplished by anyone....
Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice cream shop, you can't really learn much about a person based on w...
By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Real World is the read w...
But regardless of the direction you move, the central problem is still there: Why do it? What’s the best reason for exploding the parameters of reality? With the possible exception of eating a dinosau...
But I've mellowed over time, which is what all wine drunks and dope smokers say when trying to justify why they quit trying.
The Eagles' song Take It Easy) is clearly a problem of a young man, as no one over thirty-five could sustain interest in seven simultaneous relationships unless they're biracial and amazing at golf.
If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your fr...
Accelerated culture does not respond well to the nonobvious.
Well, that’s how it always seems, until it doesn’t.
We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper par...
We must start from the premise that—in all likelihood—we are already wrong. And not wrong in the sense that we are examining questions and coming to incorrect conclusions, because most of our conclusi...
The year you spent ‘killing yourself’to make me love you…I thought that was us being best friends. We had all those intimate conversations and you sent me all those long e-mails and we watched all tho...
Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least...