Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.