You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
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Zum Autor"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
"You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble."
"My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level."
"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
"And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."
"In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power."