89 quotes
"'Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.' Marge is Anna-Louise's word describing sad, 1950s-ish diner-type places where the waitresses are named Marge."
Shampoo Planet (1992)
I don't want dainty little moments of insight …
Generation X (1991)
There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now.
Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)
I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
Life After God (1994)
The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I’m kidding. But killing helps.
JPod (2006)
Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)
“What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?”
“Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.”
JPod (2006)
"Ethan, there has to be more to my life than this."
"Why can't you just be happy as a shallow cartoon glyph of a human like everybody else here?"
JPod (2006)
“I wish my parents took good care of their grow-op.”
JPod (2006)
The heart of a man is like deep water.
Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
Is feeling nothing the inevitable result of believing in nothing? ...I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
Life After God (1994)
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
Life After God (1994)
I was Cheryl Anway- that has to count for something.
Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
I used to always think I had to have a reason to record my observations of the day, or even my emotions, but now I think simply being alive is more than enough reason.
Microserfs (1995)
If you’re an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time’s passing go slower or faster than it does for me?
JPod (2006)
Boomer Envy: Envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by older members of the baby boom generation by virtue of fortunate births.
You still don't know what you do well.
Shampoo Planet (1992)
“A girl can’t control who will and who won’t fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.”
JPod (2006)
Language is such a technology.
Microserfs (1995)