25 quotes found
“Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.”
“So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.”
“The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.”
“Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker”
“No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.”
“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”
“If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”
“I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”
“He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.”
“May in Varanasi. 25 and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses off the howling heretics and the men who fuck marine life etc. NATO's stomping on the B...”
“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or m...”
“But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas.”
“We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extin...”
“It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.”
“It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”
“Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.”
“Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form that's so big we forget it's there, that turns minerals on its planet...”
“Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.”
“I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity”
“Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred animals, rewrite the mythologies, and build roads thro...”
