I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

You are or become what you think you are

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

It's nice to be taken seriously.

I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.