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We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.

this action was a kind of shift from safety towards self-preservation. It was a choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

She said, You seem confused about your function here. It is to offer medical solutions for my disease. If you cannot, you pass me on to a more competent doctor.

That really is the worst revenge you can take, for there's nothing he loathes more than magnanimity. KURT

LAURA. Oh, we women are really too clever. CAPTAIN.

CAPTAIN. America? That's a pretty dreadful place, isn't it? Nothing but rednecks! KURT [gloomily]. Well, it's not Copenhagen. ALICE

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

You know what we need? We need to get jobs, get the fuck out of that crazy house,' Natalie said, dipping a McNugget into her sauce. Yeah, right. Jobs doing what? Our only skills are oral sex and restraining agitated psychotics.

You have an incredible body. He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

She was a rare psychotic-confessional-poet strain of salmonella.

You exposed your penis on national television, Max. What am I supposed to do? I didn't expose it, Howard, it just sort of peeked out.

The shame is disguised here as helpful. But both people in this conversation would know it was bullying.

I hate when you play therapist. Especially with your accent. It makes everything you say sound so BBC.

Great idea, I said. Call the police. Call the fucking police.

What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

Bay Area real estate is far more likely than a bad LSD trip to drive you to psychosis.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

It is a sin to write this.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence...

writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out.

You could tell them why they should hire you so very much better than I could. But they won't listen to you and they'll listen to me. Because I'm the middleman. The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line--it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter. Such is the psychology of a pretzel.