Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.