Quotes from book

Postcards from the Edge

“"Religion is the opiate of the masses.""I did masses of opiates religiously.”

“Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir”

“Instant gratification takes too long.”

“My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.”

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?”

“Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.”

“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.”

“We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.”

“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”

“I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.”

“What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.”

“Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.”

“You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?”

“"That's the way it works in movies," said Suzanne. "Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?'”

“I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise….”