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A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.
I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.
I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.
Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.
It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.
After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.
If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.
There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.
It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.
I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.
As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?
I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.
Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.