I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night.
Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
. . . you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, "Make it shorter. " Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.