"You can’t fool people into loving you."
"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create."
"Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead."
"Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."
"some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems."
"It sounds as if you'd like to be God."
"There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die."
"The lucky ones are just born dead."
"What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in."
"Sex pretty much cures everything."
"It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself."
"Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second."
"they should let some people into the library by prescription only"
"To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it."
"You gain power by pretending to be weak."
"For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh."
"My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich."
"I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm."
"The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies."
"It's amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this."
"It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined."
"Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights."
"If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create."
"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."
"It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything."