Maybe we should always assume the worst.

A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.