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There’s no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Fate Quotes

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there’s something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

At the last minute, I couldn’t wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn’t want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone’s front stoop.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I’m never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn’t my invention.

I am Joe’s Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

I’m always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway’s gray marble floor looks as if we’ve climbed a stairway through the clouds.

They’re just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I’m a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I’ll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. – Brandy Alexander.

Real Quotes

Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humor left.

That’s what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can’t know I’m its mother. It’s so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that’s what I love about fire.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn’t occasionally go too far, you weren’t going anywhere.

My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

Stories Quotes

The cancer I don’t have is everywhere now.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she’s still able to recover.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.

Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany’s and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.

The girl traced the outline of her lover’s shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it’s correct place.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that’s usually how you end up crying?

Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they’re all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That’s how beautiful she looks.

We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of “comfort food” we expect to lull us to sleep.

Book Quotes

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything.

I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

I’m not sure what we’re running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won’t have to get on with our lives.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn’t know that hope is just another phase you’ll grow out of.

Life’s greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can’t they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes – I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes the oxygen level in the blood, and people are likelier to pass out at that point.

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion – painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you’re a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can’t shut them up.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.

This isn’t about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it’s what we’re programmed to love.