The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun of itself if capitalism thought there was a buck in it.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.