“Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and pimple cream and growth hormone-treated hamburger meat and premature sex drives and costly, fleeting, violent sublimations. It's all part of the conspiracy . . . all of it trying to convince them that they're here to be trained… — Alex Shakar Copy Share
With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of. — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
“An ironic religion -- one that never claims to be absolutely true but only professes to be relatively beautiful, and never promises salvation but only proposes it as a salubrious idea. A century ago there were people who thought art was the thing that could fuse the terms of this seemingly insuperable oxymoron, and no doubt art is part of… — Alex Shakar Copy Share
“On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.” — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same… — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth. — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
“Fred put away the phone, finished off his bourbon, and resumed watching the couple suck on the combined mass of their two tongues. He… — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy. — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the… — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
“It's kind of a dark little life . . . being a paranoiac, but it's also not without its comforts.” — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
