"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."

"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."

"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"

"Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it."

"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you."

"Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being."

"Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself."

"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."

"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."

"How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words."

"Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else."

"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase."

"I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity"

"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."

"There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness."

"Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier")."

"You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking."

"...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth."

"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant."

"Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still."

"And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance."

"The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info."

"Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

"To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish"

"I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them."

"I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me."

"True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world."

"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."

"Sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them."

"... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable".""

"Every love story is a ghost story."

"I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten."

"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic."

"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear"

"Mediocrity is contextual."

"The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir."

"There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free."

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

"Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?"

"Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move."

"The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell."

"God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about."

"I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion."

"Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around."

"...morning is the soul's night."

"This is so American, man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."

"You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice."

"I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away."