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The things you own end up owning you.
The demon say’s Do you view sexual acts between individuals of the same gender to be an abomination?…Do you approve, the demon says, of marriage between individuals of differing racial backgrounds?
The big question people ask isn't 'What's the nature of existence?' the mouth says. 'The big question people ask is 'What's that from?
Oh, I wish I could make my poor heart just burst.
If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window.
I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold,...
With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one per...
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistre...
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you...
You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.
We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser.
My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.