In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

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

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

She was partial to the tie. Not too long ago he did unspeakable things to her with that tie.

The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.

I really feel lucky that I still feel excited about the actual work that I get to do. I just happen to love it, and I could easily see, for somebody else, that not being the case.

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

People think other things are more important than prayer, but they are mistaken.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.