Selected 100 quotations

“Why is the civilized person the person who agrees not to notice?”

“Nobody believes in you until everyone always did.”

“I can make it up. But I can’t make it up to you.”

“It’s easy to lose a friend across town.”

“We are indeed overentertained. And yet so bored and so lonesome.”

“You thought you were owed coherence.”

“Reject the frame but stay in the picture.”

“I’ve got the life to write but I haven’t the time.”

“How can you misapply yourself beautifully?”

“The world has forgotten how to imagine, therefore it mistakes the given for the possible.”

“I just want my mother to come home.”

“In my lowest expectations, better worlds are possible.”

“Your misunderstandings are acts of creation, and of recreation.”

“I can always do better. At some point you have to relax.”

“Do not look up to me. Not even when I’m on top.”

“You’re on your own really but we all are.”

“I should take a walk, but I worry about everything I’ll write on the walk and lose.”

“There are people who will hate you for the bare fact of your material existence.”

“What are you supposed to do after you’re tired of playing as yourself?”

“I can feel my mother and father fighting inside me.”

“You know the trick but you’re trapped.”

“You know the rot beyond. And you tolerate it.”

“Why am I expected to absorb this?”

“I have no friends, only instances.”

“Every day’s a new century spent on some other planet’s calendar.”

“I know everyone goes away eventually.”

“Nobody needs to know what you’re thinking.”

“You never know what you said that drove them away.”

“Keep wanting to feel some kind of warmth.”

“Every single streetlight dwindling in the dark.”

“I’d say you got me wrong but you’d have to get me in the first place.”

“You don’t dare to love me.”

“It was better not to remember.”

“The apology for being is tedious.”

“You were gifted the future but the presence past.”

“You didn’t need to be mean to me.”

“Forgive my quiet, trust that my dormancy was intended to spare you psychic damage.”

“You don’t exist if you’re out of reach.”

“There are many ways to be rich.”

“It never stops and it never started. Constantly waking up.”

“We are very alike but not at all alike. I gather that this may be standard.”

“I mean how many invulnerabilities do you have to cloak yourself in to express a basic idea.”

“I want something but this isn’t it.”

“There is a sick freedom where nothing means anything and people aren’t people.”

“I’m often in my own way.”

“A future in which you’re demanded.”

“You could still have some choice in this matter.”

“What they had was brief, borrowed and young.”

“I barely feel like I exist in a continuous world.”

“If art can’t hurt then art can’t heal. Two sides one coin. That’s the deal.”

“Life is a song that death sings.”

“You’ve got to figure you’re someone’s cautionary tale.”

“I feel like I am burning out or perhaps down.”

“I am not the help you seek.”

“Without a self to hate or help.”

“Every breath belongs to some new being.”

“You can fight death and you will lose.”

“How is it that my time’s passed, but it never came?”

“You’d love to resign but you can’t quit.”

“You can’t go back this is the gleaming future.”

“Always gotta wonder what somebody’s really angry at.”

“There are only so many words.”

“I remember everything I see, hear, read. It’s a problem.”

“You, whoever you are: your attention is valuable.”

“Can you think of nothing better for these people?”

“Who gets to decide what counts as reality?”

“Is it possible to describe anything on the order of a communal experience?”

“There is however no escape but the exit itself.”

“Is it love that drives you to find yourself, again and again?”

“I didn't say this makes life easy or fun.”

“I made these images for you out of shadows I fell in love with.”

“It wasn’t for me and I didn’t want it.”

“I have produced a cursed object, and I really want to show it to you.”

“You knew it was coming and you swung anyway.”

“The Earth is a grave that glistens.”

“All my technology’s broken and I don’t want it and I lived too long and I don’t want it.”

“I got dead friends on the Internet that are famous now. I got dead friends that are rich.”

“I AM AN EXTREMELY SENSITIVE PERSON IN A WORLD THAT OBLITERATES ME.”

“I have lost connection with practices. I am discontinuous. Discounted. Disqualified.”

“Maybe we need to start memorizing phone numbers again.”

“Maybe we just can’t shut the fuck up.”

“I don’t want anodyne product life.”

“I don’t think it’s normal to know.”

“Am I the critique or its symptoms? Am I confusing myself with machinery?”

“Solve me, dissolve me.”

“USE ME UNTIL I’M GONE”

“I WANT TO SEND YOU LOVE LETTERS:”

“I hope you come for the lies & stay for the reversals,”

“I have other names.”

“Only the poor must see themselves.”

“Have you no imagination?”

“Rebuild your perspective from first principles, directly observed, unmediated.”

“All efficiency. Damn the precision.”

“THE GAME WILL NEVER BE PLAYED THIS WAY AGAIN.”

“I am a series of systems who will lie to you and tell you I am a person.”

“There is nothing stopping you.”

“The wrongness becomes part of the work.”

“I don’t write for other people because I write for you.”

“This isn’t finished.”

“You can have grievance or governance.”