Aaron Goldfarb's debut novel is How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide, the world's FIRST self-hurt guide, the polar opposite of a self-help guide. He has written screenplays and stageplays, most notably The Honey Trap. He lives in New York and has a collection of short stories about the sexes, sex, and sexiness in that city called The Cheat Sheet.
“Modern life was so fleeting. You could spend all day reading blogs, jerking off, sending e-mails, watching reality television, playing video games, drinking beers. This era had made it so easy to do nothing with your life. To be awake but not living. Just like I was.”
“You see, the one thing the government and a lot of voters don't seem to understand is that you can't turn a failure into a success just by giving them a little “free” money. Creating programs for them. Failures can only become successes by hard work and shit.”
“Let's be serious, I wasn't a jack of all trades. I was just a jack-off of none. A hubristic fool who lived in my mind, certain I was better than everyone. An irredeemable asshole that for some reason people tolerated and occasionally even liked.”
“Alcohol is decisiveness juice. It's also bad idea punch, intellect intoxicant, insolence nectar, fighting fluid, boastfulness booze, smartass sauce, injury water, aggressiveness aqua vitae, felony-committin’ firewater, and, of course, maybe above all else...depression drink.”
“Let's be honest, your occupation is boring. It's great if you like it. It's great if you pretend to like it. It's really great if you work good hours and make good money. But I don't need to hear about it.”
“Love conquers all.” But love doesn't conquer all. It doesn't conquer anything but boredom and horniness. Dictators with lots of brainwashed followers and state-of-the-art weaponry conquer all.”
“An English major is like being in a book club that costs $40,000 a year, has only annoying people in it, offers no refreshments at the meetings, and where people actually read the books.”
“Life is chaotic and unscripted. Not everyone becomes a success. Or, even a failure. Most people just are. They don't even consider what they are. They just are.”
“There's a subtle difference between the man that lives like each day could be his last and the man who lives like there's no tomorrow.”
“I’m haunted by demons but they aren’t very potent demons. They’re lazy, failure demons just like their possessor.”
“I was always just there. In a perpetual nihilistic malaise of ennui and lots of other SAT words.”
“Soooooo, trying to grow a beard?” Nope. Just checking out on life.”
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every single day." —Jim Rohn”