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Hi! I'm Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!

Those were big years, big times.

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

We'll go to a place that's quiet and dry and talk about precious things.

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?

Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.

Please, God, don't let Warren be cheap. I'm too young to discuss coupons.

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies' afternoon tea.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

There is no shame in impulse.

Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church ...

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.

People are leaky.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.

Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised ever again.

Eroticize intelligence.

Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast
as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

To bring order into this jangled sphere man must find its centre Marshall McLuhan

What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?

Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe."
What does the 'T' stand for?"
'The.

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die?

The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.

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.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

The universe is indeed a beautiful place. If you doubt me, go check for yourself.

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.

I think there is a Paris inside us all.

The less of a life, the more mail you need

Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.

Wilcox Fate is for losers.

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

Keep your treasure to yourself.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.