SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day.

Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.