People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.

The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?

Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.

Only a fool will accept a gift you cannot keep. You can't keep anything from the world but salvation is wise and everlasting. John 3:16

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.