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“One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.”
― Doppler
― Doppler
“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.”
― Doppler
― Doppler
“Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
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