“All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.”

“We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an opportunity to start over, to undo the errors of history -- to relive mankind's awkward adolescence with all the wisdom of our modern age. But everything was happening so fast.”

“SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words?IM: So, so, so, so, so, so, so awesome.”

“Quod tu es, eqo fui, quod ego sum, tu eris.What you are, I once was.What I am, you will become.”

“I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

“The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.”

“I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.”