Christopher Bollen, Orient Quotes

You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.

That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.

Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

I’ve always looked like this—in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?

Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.