It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.

And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be "See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't." I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.