In fact, it's become politically important to offend people, because we have to fight back against this notion that being offensive should be against the law or something, and that everyone supposedly deserves "respect" for their often dopy views.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.