Jim Goad Quotes

I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.

San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.

The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

The leftist drive for control is insatiable.

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

My hatred is diamond-hard.

There's a reason the Third World came in third.

I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

I write to please myself.

Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.

I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.

If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.

I tend not to hang with 'the crowd' because I believe that at any given moment in history, the crowd is only standing somewhere because some lone, brave nutjob broke down the walls for them first.

I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.

People can be so heartless and dirty.

I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

I've noticed that if you spend ten years without shooting dope, people consider you an ex-junkie, but one never is considered an 'ex-woman-beater.'

I'm the only convict who couldn't get into Australia.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who doles out "justice."

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.

When you're indiscriminate in allowing people to post, the loudest and emptiest voices invariably drown out everyone else.

One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.