Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.