Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life