I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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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.

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The most important things are the hardest to say

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Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

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Do it for joy and you can do it forever

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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

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I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

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