Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.