For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

- D.B.C. Pierre

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

- D.B.C. Pierre

Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.

- D.B.C. Pierre

And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that…

- D.B.C. Pierre

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

- D.B.C. Pierre

If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.

- D.B.C. Pierre

Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.

- D.B.C. Pierre