“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.”

“Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.”

“When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.”

“Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.”

“The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”