...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

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

Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they're going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It's really a lot of fun.

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

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.