"This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them."
— Neal Stephenson

"When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins."
— Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)

""You okay?"
"Just waiting for the water to boil. Burning shower. One of the only things that helps when I'm totally freaking out."
I'm not sure how to respond. "So," I whisper, "you want anything?"
"Yeah," She replies, sarcastic "I want to be bulimic, but the vomit grosses me out.""
— Albert Borris (Crash into Me)

"My Top Ten Reasons To Live

10. Stars in a really dark sky
9. Driving across the country
8. Nirvana
7. My mom
6. Our dog pack
5. Gay bingo
4. Mud fights
3. Kissing
2. Magic marker tattoos
1. Pink socks"
— Albert Borris (Crash into Me)

" Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me.
I never thought I was worth saving."
— Albert Borris (Crash into Me)

"Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her so much power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.""
— Denis Johnson (Jesus' Son: Stories)

"Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion."
— John Kenneth Galbraith (The Great Crash 1929)

"There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery"
— Neal Stephenson