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| �You are not your job. You are not the money in your bank account. You are not the car you drive. You are not how much money is in your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.� �You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.� �The things you own end up owning you.� �Our fathers were our models for God. If they bailed, what does that tell you about God? You have to be prepared for the possibility that God does not like you.� �I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. And then I ran some more.� �Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we don't need.� �Losing all hope is freedom.� "With insomnia, you're never really asleep; you're never really awake." "We are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place. Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives." "You have to be prepared for the possibility that God does not like you." "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time!" "We waste our lives working at jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need!" "You have to know, not fear, that someday you are going to die. Until you know that and you embrace that, you are useless." "I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom. I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground. Don't think of it as extinction. Think of it as downsizing." �The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you've lost everything that you are free to do anything." "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." "Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?" "Eyes closed, we imagined our pain as a ball of white healing light floating around our feet and rising to our knees, our waist, our chest. Our chakras opening. The heart chakra. The head chakra. Chloe talked us into caves where we meet our power animal. Mine was a penguin." "Just slide..." "If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall? You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall. If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt. If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall." |
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