The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.