They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.