Do you think that being quick to judge, and being quick to pre-emptively please your internal 400-level professor, means you ignore or dismiss things that might actually be interesting? Is it better t...
Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we approach a state of moistness? There was a storm and we didn't even know.
Dag says he's a lesbian trapped inside a man's body. Figure that out.
Could I ever be a Craig? No. A person must be born into Craigdom, with its multiple ski holidays, complex orthodontia, proper nutrition and casual, healthy view of recreational sex. My
But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.Mom... Dad...
Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surpr...
And if you were such a good clairvoyant, why didn't you just write things straight out? What's with all the stupid rhyming quatrains? Thanks for nothing.
And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember...
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.
A feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo.
We lost money at church bingos and ate catfish deep-fried in lard.
Worrying about money is one of the worst worries. It’s like having locked-in syndrome, except you’re still moving around and doing things. Your head burns. If other people are not having money problem...
Why is it Americans are socially permitted to say 'fricking' when in fact everyone knows the word they're actually saying is 'fucking'?…here you have some bland ho-bag telly presenter saying 'I'm so f...
When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry-lon...
When you get an e-mail and reply to the sender, you simply obliterate everything they sent you and then, in small square brackets, write: [deletia] It stands for everything that's been lost.