I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Never get caught acting.

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.