It’s only after you’ve lost everything, Tyler says, that you’re free to do anything. What I’m feeling
It’s a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren’t we all?
Imagine if Jesus chased you around, trying to catch you and save your soul.
I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jetliner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's all...
I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Somet...
I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
I figured I’d spend my first thousand years of Hell in some entry-level position, but after that I wanted to move into management. Be a real team player. Hell is going to see enormous growth in market...
How she looks is watered-down.How she looks is disappearing.How she looks is erased.Don't stress, she says. This is just me not wearing any makeup.
How can I not laugh? I'm already dead.
Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.
Even if you tell yourself Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot. Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot.Because you can do nothing wro...
Birds ate my face.
At almost every meeting since then, Big Bob has made me cry. I never went back to the doctor. I never chewed the valerian root.This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. If I didn't say anything,...
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? Ho...
All these stupid rocks, I say, what’s your goal?This isn't about getting something done, Denny says. It’s about the doing, you know, the process.But what are you going to do with all these rocks?And D...
All these people who say they want a life free from sexual compulsion, I mean forget it. I mean, what could ever be better than sex?For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the...
All humans search for either reasons to be good or excuses to be bad.
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
But what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is Earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to g...