We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”

“Stop trying to control everything and just let go!”

“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”

"Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions."

“Damaged people are dangerous they know they can survive.”

“I found freedom.“Losing all hope was freedom.”

“THE LOWER YOU FALL, THE HIGHER YOU'LL FLY.”

"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything."

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”

“With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything's far away.Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy.”

“The things you own end up owning you.”

”Know that some day, you're gonna die.”

“You wanna make an omelette you gotta break some eggs.”

“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

“Marla's philosophy of lifewas that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn’t ”

“Listen to me. You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you!”

“Our great war's a spiritual war.Our great depression is our lives.”

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