12 quotes found
“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”
“Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”
“As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen”
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
“We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.”
“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”
“Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot.Because you can do nothin...”
“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching on...”
“This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.”
“You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,' he says, 'the same way this theater seems to digest people.' With one hand, he points to a carpet stain, this dark stain sticky and grow...”
“She says, "I'll swear by the rose tattooed on my ass, that old man raped me."Here, the funeral parade stops. At this point, Comrade Snarky is a victim among victims. The rest of us just her suppor...”
“No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.It's the mark of a very, very young soul, Mr. Whittier used to say, to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone fro...”
