Suicide is very contagious.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.