Life is a nightmare.
Kid like you, got money, got a family, you’ll be out in a few days.
I’m asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I’m asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that probably you only get in preschool.
It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
I thought you were interesting. Why did you do what it said? I… I can’t think up a fake answer quickly enough. I’m a straight guy, you know. So if a girl talks to me or whatever, I’ll do exactly what...
I look up at her, rolling her mouth and smiling down. I look at the map. It’s not a brain, clearly; it’s a map; can’t she see the rivers and highways and interchanges? But I see how it could look like...
I know that you’re not supposed to think about dancing—what is that stupid expression, Sing like no one’s listening, dance like no one’s watching?—whatever.
I hug her one more time and pull her down to the bed. And in my mind, I rise up from the bed and look down on us, and look down at everybody else in this hospital who might have the good fortune of ho...
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in fr...
I can’t function here anymore. I mean in life: I can’t function in this life. I’m no better off than when I was in bed last night, with one difference: when I was in my own bed—or my mom’s—I could do...
Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
But, um, I kind of wondered if I could have your phone number, so I can call you when we're out of here.' She smiles and her cuts outline her face like a cat's whispers. 'Crafty.' 'I am a guy,' I say....
But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own. It's time for me to be true to myself, like the popstars say. And my true self wants to blast off this rock...
But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. He adopts the do nothing method of therapy. You tell him your problems and he, ah, does nothing.
Bobby sips his coffee. If there wasn’t coffee on this earth, I’d be dead.
And what is that nightmare, Craig?LifeLife is a nightmareYes
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways.
A person’s relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don’t think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don’t think...
A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.