My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

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.

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