Quotes About Change

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me. Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

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

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Self improvement is masturbation...

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.

You met me at a very strange time in my life.

All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.