Self improvement is masturbation.

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

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.