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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

The liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perceptions.

And I want Seth dead. Worse than dead, I want him fat and bloated with water and insecure and emotional.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

How could you let me love something that was going to die?

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

Depending on her mood, Judy Garland can still be more frightening than any demon or devil you might run across.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.

My best work is not behind me! He yells, You know, nobody does a better split-reed standing anal with an on-demand hands-free pop-shot release.

Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

Solitude is a natural place for a writer to be.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

The truth is, Archer tells me, you stay in Hell until you forgive yourself. "You fucked up. Game over," he says, "so just relax.

We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.
None of that is bad. It's just the way human beings operate.

Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune ... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.

Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

it's why men marry women and why women have children.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Give me romance.
Flash.
Give me denial.

Me, I'm a bloody tissue sample dried on a bare mattress in my room at the Paper Street Soap Company.

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

No medium is fragile if it carries the truth.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived ... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

...actual happiness only happens by accident

That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again.

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.

The only thing that makes earth feel like Hell, or Hell feel like Hell, is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Give me anger.
Flash.
Give me vengeance.
Flash.
Give me total and complete justified retribution.
Flash.

People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Give me terror.
Flash.
Give me panic.
Flash.

If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.

Heads together. I tell the waiter, give us clean food, please. Please, don't be doing any trash to the stuff we order. In that case, sir,

God should be able to wink that good. Like somebody taking your picture. Give me joy. Give me fun. Give me love.
Flash.

you're doomed at being you.

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

So why do you want to die so bad?

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise.

When you just cannot stop working. When completing this one project is all you can imagine.

In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

Power, money, food, sex, love. Can we ever get enough, or will getting some make us crave even more?

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior.

These dudes, clutching their little gifts, for them today is their kind-of-honeymoon.

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much.

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

Shoulder. They weigh that much. Tyler's a banquet waiter,

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.

It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties.

All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.

Why do the lives of writers seem so ... train-wrecky?

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime could be?

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.