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- I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
- There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
- All of my books come from pain.
- I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability…
- Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects,…
- She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door…
- There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the…
- Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
- I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.…
- I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her…
- I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say…
- When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I…
- And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That…
- I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and…
- Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to…
- He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle