"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!"

"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."

"Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart."

"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create."

"My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me."

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

"You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved."

"The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate."

"We just had a near-life experience!"

"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."

"Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away."

"Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it.How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages....The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and the tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished."

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

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

"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."

"It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life."

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

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"You can’t fool people into loving you."