Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.
I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.