“that look you get after every bone in your face has been broken at least once and then allowed to set without medical attention”

“If you're going to be soulless, you should at least consider outsourcing your conscience to someone else.”

“It shows something, though: if you're going to be soulless, you should at least consider outsourcing your conscience to someone else.”

“Calling a tongue piecing 'cosmetic' is a bit of a stretch, since you don't get one because it makes you look better. You get one because you're so desperate for affection that you're willing to gruesomely harm yourself to advertise how well you suck dick.”

“what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.”

“But rituals turn us all into fucking idiots. Like those birds that sleep with their heads facing backwards because their ancestors slept with their heads under their wings. Plutarch says carrying new wives across thresholds is stupid because we don't remember that it refers to the rape of the Sabine women - and that's fucking Plutarch, two thousand years ago. We still draw the Reaper with a scythe. We should draw him driving a John Deere for Archer Daniels Midland.”

“Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.”