stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.