"Words and a book and a belief that the world is words..."

"... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak."

"Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist."

"He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied."

"In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote."

"My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired."

"That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine..."

"There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it."

"...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking."

"To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people."

"Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it."

"...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about."

"The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism."

"I am not what you see and hear."

"I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away."

"You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice."

"This is so American, man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."

"...morning is the soul's night."

"Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around."

"I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion."

"God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about."

"The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell."

"Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move."

"Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?"