There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put….

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" b….

You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that ….

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes ….

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility..

There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affec….

The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laugh….

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them..

That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and Ame….

Don't be afraid to have nothing..

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos..

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon..

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids..

Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of an irrational fear because it's someth….

The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital or losing a child or, y….

I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's w….

I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it..

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential..

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room..

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable..

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story..