I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
Forget the midlife crisis, I say. It’s all about the sixth-life crisis.
Well, my dad died when I was three. Shoot. That’s right. Some of us have actual things to complain about.
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of gettin...
Noelle: But I look like a freak now.Craig: I told you, Noelle, everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. But people aren’t going to look at you and run away. They’re...
Nobody had told me I was common.
My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the wa...
Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?
I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think...
I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I’d flop around down there atpeace. The big concerns of my life would be what sort of bottom-coating slime to feed off of—t...
I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so...
Every tounge bit had another word to say.
Your relationship with air—that’s key. You can’t break up with air.
What were you tring to do, soldier?I was trying to eat, sir!And what happened?I got caught thinking about some crap, sir!What kind of crap?How I want to live less than my parent's dog.
We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we’re, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And...
They’re sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they’re important— everybody knows that; the TV tells you so—but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. All you have to do is ta...
They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.