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Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Don’t ask me when because I don’t remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide.
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.
Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?
Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power.
Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.