William III > William's Quotes

“Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
― Kobo Abe

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“This is not for you.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“When you're weird, you're timeless.”
― William Pauley III

“We are all star stuff.”
― Carl Sagan

“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I am a confused animal who fears the idea of progress, not because I do not wish to progress, but because I fear how those in control define progress.”
― William Pauley III, Hearers of the Constant Hum

“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

“Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”
― Ray Charles

“There’s radiation in the walls of our apartment building, at least that’s what Buzz tells me.”
― William Pauley III, The Tower

“The radiation from the walls continues to soak into our skin, and we glow happily and beautifully until the moment we all step down into our graves.”
― William Pauley III, The Tower

“How curious is this home, our tower?”
― William Pauley III, The Tower

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967