A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.— Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction
A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.
A book is as private and consensual as sex.
A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo a role you're planning to leave.You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret, you want future critics to say yo...
Please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted, we might develop some skills, achieve some profoun...
It's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets
Individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich culture diversity. Cleave...
Brandy says not to watch myself too close.Honey, she says, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever...
Може би човек не отива в ада за онова, което е сторил, казва гласът в главата ми. Може би отиваш в ада заради това, което не си направил. За нещата, които не си довел докрай.
«Il motivo principale per cui la gente se ne va dai paesini di provincia» diceva sempre Rant, «è perché così poi può sognare di tornarci. E il motivo per cui ci resta è per sognare di andarsene». Con...
You're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs an...
You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
You take enough blasting gelatin and wrap the foundation columns of anything, you can topple any building in the world. You have to tamp it good and tight with sandbags so the blast goes against the c...
You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
You realize it's not wooden stakes that kill vampires. It's all the emotional baggage and letdowns they have to carry around for century after century.
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger.
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in...
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-en...
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.