People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I just don't want to die without a few scars.
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
The answer is there is no answer.
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
