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"‘Tell me,’ a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. ‘Do you think God cares?’"

"Take it easy. Nothing you do matters as much as you think. Your greatest achievements aren’t yours at all, they’re accidents and jokes. You’re a puppet, the universe does the work, and it gets the most done when you’re moving the least. Surrender, flow, relax. Don’t be hard on yourself, don’t put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you’ll be perfect when you’re dead."

"If I’m butter, then I’m butter.
But if I’m butter then he’s a hot knife.
He makes my heart
into a cinemascope
that’s showing
a dancing
bird of paradise."

"What’s that idea that one person had, about combining your ways of thinking so that you could hear a song as a color and taste a food as a pitch in a song?"

"SOME PEOPLE ARE GROWING UP SOME PEOPLE ARE TAKING OUT MONEY AT THE GAS STATION ATM AND CLOSING IN ON THEMSELVES THIS IS HOW LIFE SIMPLY IS"

"Despite the fact that we are physically here, we are freer than everyone sitting across from us…We can say anything we want."

"A cheapness of mind, a cheapness of taste.
A tawdry little shine on the seat of his consciousness.
And a dark-room squint at a world
whose sunlight has
never gotten through to him."

"Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do, and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do. Its purpose is to make it so that you can identify with everything. We obviously grew up identifying with nothing."

"You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think."

"And then he’ll try again, and he’ll always be like, ‘Get on top,’ even though the sex is miserable and takes like literally 40 minutes, and even though he’s barely hard he’s asked you twice if he can put it in your ass and the sun rises and is glaring through the shitty Venetian blinds and you’re crashing off the drugs and exhausted from gyrating for so long and his roommate the New Jersey Net is getting up to use the bathroom and you’re totally sore, and it’s around this time you just wonder in this sensitive, horrible way if it’s possible for the world to be any uglier."

"Memory is a wonderful thing if you don’t have to think about the past."

"WHAT A YEAR
THIS DAY HAS BEEN."

"WE KNOW NOW WE WANT MORE;
A LIFE WORTH FIGHTING FOR."

"Just looking at her feels like you’re imagining something."