“Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it and welcome every moment”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Choke
― Choke
“It is no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing.”
― The Great Silence
― The Great Silence
“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“We'll never be as young as we are tonight.”
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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