“Lying to other people isn’t hard. It’s lyingto yourself that’s the trouble.”

“Well I’ve just been thinking, and don’t youthink it’s kind of, well, kind of vain, to decide weneed to make little clones of ourselves when theworlds already pretty overpopulated. It’s just notpractical and kind of greedy.”

“In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.”

“I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By sheer force of will and some clever word placement, I can arrange all of these little symbols together to invoke emotions and ideas at a whim out of whosoever allows me to cast my spell. It does not take a man and a woman to create. It just takes a writer.”

“i want to bleed ink and shit prose.”

“i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.”

“I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.”