The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.