Quotes from book

Diary

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“What you don't understand you can make mean anything.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

“A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.”

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”

“Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.”

“If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.”

“The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

“Everyone's in their own personal coma.”

“If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.”

“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.”

“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”

“you're doomed at being you.”

“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.”

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.”