We don’t understand our childhoods so we spend our adult lives reenacting them in the hope that an outside observer

I used to think the way it works i… if it’s true then you believe it Later, I thought if you believe it

The world to come is like a signature look that’s always a new look

Hell isn’t other people– Hell is waiting in line behind other people

In our western culture you shan’t take pride in the power you’ve cultivated over the Other so you have to convince yourself

The American cure for the boredom of meaninglessness is not to pursue meaning but to outpace boredom which is why our mass nihilism

The cold war was a just war but a just war is still just war and war is hell

What looks like the wreckage of my life is just my crumple zone doing its job

I survived my humiliation By treating it like a joke Through becoming a joke myself In order to in turn survive my bec… I became a running joke

I thought I was choosing between Life and death When really, I was choosing betwe… First and last place So, when I thought I chose life

Anticipation or dread work equally well at stopping time though the length of the work week

The mean streets of easy street Lack any meaning– To get there, try going crazy But everybody knows You’d be crazy to try

When civilization was still buildi… deconstruction was all the rage Now that everything we’ve built is… rage is all the rage

You can’t take it with you tells us how to live well But we think it means living forev… and so, we’ve invested in Shell In the hopes that our savings will…

The soul is an appendix made of wo… and while plenty of people function perfectly well without on… much like the physical appendix– which stores good bacteria