This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
This is when I'd cry because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion.
This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life...
There’s a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead. Your parents. Your doctor. Your therapist. Your caseworker. The sun’s outside the bathroom wi...
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.
The truth is nothing new ever happens.
The thing about being cloned from all those shampoo commercials, well, that goes for me and Brandy Alexander, too. Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a va...
The skin along the parts in her hair, the skin above and behind the doctor's ears, is as clear and white as the skin inside her other tan lines must look. If women knew how their ears come across, the...
The sixth rule of Fight Club: No shirt, no shoes.
The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.
The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved?The key to salvation is how much atten...
The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregna...
The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselv...
The mistakes we make in our youth, she said solemnly, we pay for with the rest of our lives.
The martyrdom of me.
The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.
The lucky ones are just born dead.