"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

"There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free."

"The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir."

"Mediocrity is contextual."

"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear"

"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic."

"I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten."

"Every love story is a ghost story."

"... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable".""

"Sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them."

"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."

"True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world."

"I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me."

"I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them."

"To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish"

"Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

"The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info."

"And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance."

"Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still."

"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant."

"...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth."

"You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking."

"Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier")."

"There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness."