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I was playing it existential, and maybe a bit stupid, but it was the only way I knew how to play it.

May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?

I'd forgotten my identity as the world's most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead.

I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.

I'd never pondered the bourgeois implications of an earplug.

His ironies were ghoulish now.

How's it feel to be a worthless jumbo diddly-ass puppetool?

The big Nazi cat went on raking up thread-loops from my trousers, seemingly intent on single-handedly reinventing Velcro.

What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)

Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.

the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that beauty always takes place in the particular. Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

Yes, I cannot dispute that she is crazy. But she is also compassionate.

Jacob was right when, after Sam's injury, he said it was too much love for happiness.

I had no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

Thomas! What are you doing! and I gestured, I thought this was Nothing, covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, It's Something!

I love that story, because it shows how ignorant people can be. And also because I love tortoises.

I really have a piece-of-shit car. Is it brown? No, it's an expression. How can a car be an expression?

Wolf Blitzer had once again relieved the horrible tension of his purgatorial beard—neither a beard nor not a beard—with yet another new pair of glasses.

You're impossible, Yankel! I'm possibly possible. Thank you, she said

Mark Twain said that quitting smoking is among the easiest things one can do; he did it all the time. I would add vegetarianism to the list of easy things.

The alternative—sanity—became insane. Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things.

Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.