Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.