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“Please don’t apologize for the act of experiencing pain.”
― Truth of the Divine
― Truth of the Divine
“Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson.
Because I would start to love them, he said.”
― Irma Voth
Because I would start to love them, he said.”
― Irma Voth
“They stole it from us. It was. . .our tragedy! Which is our humanity. We need those things. We need tragedy, which is the need to love and the need. . .not just the need, the imperative, the human imperative. . .to experience joy. To find joy and to create joy. All through the night. The fight night.”
― Fight Night
― Fight Night
“Sadness is what holds our bones in place.”
― All My Puny Sorrows
― All My Puny Sorrows
“Can’t you just be like the rest of us, normal and sad and fucked up and alive and remorseful?”
― All My Puny Sorrows
― All My Puny Sorrows
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