And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.