I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. |
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom. |
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'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. |
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. |
I’d like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. |
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up? |
If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. |
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. |
If the prodigal son had never left home, the fatted calf would still be alive. |
If you can change the way people think, the way they see themselves, the way they see the world. If you can do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create. |
If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? |
If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t |
If you love something, set it free. Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes... |
If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. |