Daniel Bogdanoff

“These questions are punctuated by other questions, as diverse as "Will I ever do time?" and "Did this girl have a trusting heart?" The smell of meat and blood clouds up the condo until I don't notice it anymore. And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt. I imagine my own vacant face, the disembodied voice coming from its mouth: These are terrible times. Maggots already writhe across the human sausage, the drool pouring from my lips dribbles over them, and still I can't tell if I'm cooking any of this correctly, because I'm crying too hard and I have never really cooked anything before.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“here I am simply trying to get into your head
you think you were born you die what a pity”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.”
― Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays