“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”
“The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.”
“We should not sleep to recover the energy expended when awake but rather wake occasionally to defecate the unwanted energy that sleep engenders.”
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
“And because, well, normal is a fantasy far more ridiculous than a secret school of wizards. Nobody's normal - and those who insist they are are broken people.”