Selected quotations
“Why is the civilized person the person who agrees not to notice?”
— I Didn't Say Anything, 2026“Nobody believes in you until everyone always did.”
— Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly (𝐴-𝑍), 2023 [subscriber post]“I can make it up. But I can’t make it up to you.”
— Ocean Surrounds (HWY-1 Revisited), 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]“It’s easy to lose a friend across town.”
— 𒐈𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 (𝔸 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕣𝕕) 𒐈, 2024“We are indeed overentertained. And yet so bored and so lonesome.”
— The Spectacularist Waxes (12:57 A.M.), 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose; subscriber post]“You thought you were owed coherence.”
— Execution: The Unmediated Body, 2025“Reject the frame but stay in the picture.”
— No Music On, 2022 [instruction / imperative]“I’ve got the life to write but I haven’t the time.”
— I'm Gonna 𝙁𝙐𝘾𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙀𝙓𝙋𝙇𝙊𝘿𝙀 𝑎𝑛𝑑Ｉ ＥＸＰＬＯＤＥＤ (ɴᴏᴛ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴏʀᴅᴇʀ), 2023 [direct prose / poetic prose]“How can you misapply yourself beautifully?”
— No Music On, 2022“The world has forgotten how to imagine, therefore it mistakes the given for the possible.”
— I Didn't Say Anything, 2026 [direct prose / poetic prose]“I just want my mother to come home.”
— Fatherlessness & Other Excuses, 2026 [fiction / narration]“In my lowest expectations, better worlds are possible.”
— Fork It, 2026“Your misunderstandings are acts of creation, and of recreation.”
— Thieve Sleeves Cloven Hooves & Minced Oaths, 2023 [direct prose / poetic prose]“I can always do better. At some point you have to relax.”
— "5!, 4!, 3!, 2!," — [*enormous blood splatter*] — "HAPPY NEW YEAR!", 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]“Do not look up to me. Not even when I’m on top.”
— Idol Singer of an Empty Hour, 2022 [instruction / imperative]“You’re on your own really but we all are.”
— ♡ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟♥𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧 ♡, 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]“I should take a walk, but I worry about everything I’ll write on the walk and lose.”
— Starvation Artist in a Hostage Telethon, 2021 [direct prose / poetic prose]“There are people who will hate you for the bare fact of your material existence.”
— Anomic Comedy, 2026 [direct prose / poetic prose]“What are you supposed to do after you’re tired of playing as yourself?”
— New Scams for Advanced Impostors, 2024 [fiction / narration]“I can feel my mother and father fighting inside me.”
— ㉊ ʟᴀsᴛ ᴛʀᴇɴᴛᴀ ɴᴏᴡʜᴇʀᴇ (𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫), 2024 [direct prose / poetic prose]“You know the trick but you’re trapped.”
— Disemvowal (16 Bits), 2025“You know the rot beyond. And you tolerate it.”
— Disemvowal (16 Bits), 2025 [direct prose / poetic prose]“Why am I expected to absorb this?”
— I Didn't Say Anything, 2026“I have no friends, only instances.”
— EARTH MAN HE AIN'T GONE MAKE IT, 2026“Every day’s a new century spent on some other planet’s calendar.”
— I Drank What?, 2026 [fiction / narration]
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| Subject | Selections |
|---|---|
| Self / identity / personhood | 140 |
| Agency / refusal / freedom | 87 |
| Existential / image / fragment | 85 |
| Reality / systems / possibility | 54 |
| Mortality / loss / time | 36 |
| Art / making / audience | 34 |
| Love / intimacy / family | 18 |
| Comedy / abrasion | 15 |
| Money / labor / class | 11 |
| Body / mind / sensation | 10 |
| Place / world | 6 |
| Media / technology / attention | 6 |
The quotation index is intentionally broader than a list of “important doctrines”: a sentence can be memorable, funny, intimate or portable without functioning as a governing proposition of the larger body of work.