believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the sam...
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.
You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.
Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know wh...
To bring order into this jangled sphere man must find its centre Marshall McLuhan
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitti...
Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not likethe weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadnessand grief are part of being human and always w...
Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a sequence of events - a story - and when we can't figure out what our particular story is, we...
Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.
Maybe thinking you're supposed to 'have a life' is a stupid way of buying into an untenable 1950s narrative of what life *supposed* to be. How do we know that all of these people with 'no lives' aren'...
Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
It’s hard to get mad at Neal, because he suffers from a medical condition called total fucking stupidity.
Instead of feeling sexy and tingly, it felt useless, like recycling plastics or registering to vote.
Imagine you are sitting down in a chair and on a screen before you you are shown a bloody, ripping film of yourself undergoing surgery. The surgery saved your life. It was pivotal in making you you. B...
I've been thinking about this so much. When I say time I mean history, or... I think it's human to confuse history with time.That's for sure.No, listen. Other animals don't have time – they're simply...
I wonder that all things seem to be from hell these days: dates, jobs, parties, weather…Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised heaving...
I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all thisexposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enou...
I cautiously parked in front of the craft store, went inside and found the glue gun, which, back home, would cost $12.99. There in Arizona it was $1.29, which is to say, it was basically free, and at...