I'm too conceited for therapy.

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.