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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.
I like most any place if I have Internet access.
If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.
My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.
The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.
Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.
We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.
I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.
I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.
I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.
On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.
I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music.
You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?
When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.
One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction
note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]
It seems like I'm not [happy]. Because if you look at my tweets and what I think and say, it seems like I'm worried about what's going to happen.
I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".
I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.
Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.
Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.
I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.
I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.
I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.
It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives.
sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."
I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't think I was similar to him. But it seems like people just compare you to anyone, pretty much.