633 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1962
American novelist (born 1962)
“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that yo...”
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
“Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.”
“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”
“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
“Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it.How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after th...”
“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”
“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”
“We just had a near-life experience!”
“The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.”
“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”
“Skinny guys fight till they're burger.”
“My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.”
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots....”