10 quotes found
“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”
“I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.”
“You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.”
“But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.”
“What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up.”
“But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can't help smiling? Why is there such an agreement around the world about what is or isn't a foul smell? Who decided wh...”
“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born J...”
“That was with me for years--feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking ...”
“When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with wh...”
“They needed a reason why a little kid would commit murder, someone or something to point the finger at, and I think they were relieved when they hit upon horror movies as the culprit. But there's n...”
