When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; t...
We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds l...
There are three things we cry for in life - things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
The art world is largely mistrustful of shiny things and, on some level, even fearful of them. But if sophistication is the ability to put a smile on one’s existential desperation, then the fear of a...
Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.
Please, God, don't let Warren be cheap. I'm too young to discuss coupons.
One form of public speaking not usually recognized as such is teaching. I’ve had a few experiences in educational situations and they’ve been worse than flies crawling over my face. I don’t know if it...
Once you’ve used your brain flat-out, you can’t go into the SLOW mode. You can’t drive an Infinite J-3B and then get downgraded to an Daewoo. Brains don’t workd that way.
Life is soon
Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies’ afternoon tea.
Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe.What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
It had been drilled into us that to feel fear is to not fully trust God. Whoever made that up has never been beneath a cafeteria table with a tiny thread of someone else's blood trickling onto their l...
In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter...
Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard, Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like...
If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room...
I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
I thought I was going to see God or reach an epiphany or to levitate or something. But I never did. I prayed so long for that tohappen. I think maybe I didn't surrender myself enough - I think that's...
I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.