Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.