We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.