There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

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.

Starting requires motivation, finishing demands perseverance.

You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable." - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner

Do not judge me for the many things I do, but rather judge yourself for that which you do not.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.

A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.