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1 " Frightened people live in their own special hell. "
― Stephen King , Revival
2 " This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time. "
3 " There’s no tonic like an old friend. "
4 " That’s how you know you’re home, I think, no matter how far you’ve gone from it or how long you’ve been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer. "
5 " Everyone needs a hobby,” he said. “And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave. "
6 " The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon? "
7 " We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know. "
8 " Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion. "
9 " Home is where they want you to stay longer. "
10 " Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so—pardon the pun—so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist. "
11 " When you want to feel better, call something a piece of shit. It usually works. "
12 " That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. —H. P. Lovecraft "
13 " Bésame eternamente para que no tenga que ver adónde nos han llevado los años y en qué te has convertido "
14 " People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.There is hope, therefore I live. "
15 " If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us. "
16 " Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started. "
17 " But who is screenwriting our lives? Fate or coincidence? I want to believe it’s the latter. I want that with all my heart and soul. When I think of Charles Jacobs—my fifth business, my change agent, my nemesis—I can’t bear to believe his presence in my life had anything to do with fate. It would mean that all these terrible things—these horrors—were meant to happen. If that is so, then there is no such thing as light, and our belief in it is a foolish illusion. If that is so, we live in darkness like animals in a burrow, or ants deep in their hill. And not alone. "
18 " But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. "
19 " On the way home I remembered a bit of old folklore about how to boil a frog. You put it in cold water, then start turning up the heat. If you do it gradually, the frog is too stupid to jump out. I don't know if it's true or not, but I decided it was an excellent metaphor for growing old. "
20 " All that shit starts in E. "
