I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

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.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.