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Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you’ve built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.
It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.
“Fools aren’t born,” I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. “They are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity.”
If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.
I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid. And few things bear this out better than war, organized religion, bureaucracy and high school, where the majority mercilessly rules.
As a child, you accept whatever happens in your family as normal.
everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other.
The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.
I’ve always been paranoid about the police, because even when I’m not doing anything illegal I’m thinking about doing something illegal.
I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there’s nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’ve made a difference in someone’s life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
“I talked to the devil today, and he told me to tell you hello,”
Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it’s a lot easier to hate someone you’ve cared about than someone you never have.
where we met some girls that today I wouldn’t even let take out my garbage.
Sometimes the people who seem the most clean are really the dirtiest.
There was one girl that had followed us around to most of the cities, and she was sort of overweight but cute, like a koala bear with Gothic udders, I suppose.
The devil doesn’t exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.
The idea of heaven is just Christianity’s way of creating a hell on earth.
“One hates what one fears,” LaVey had written. “I have acquired power without conscious effort, by simply being.”
power. The less people understand you, the smarter they think you are. “I feel like you both belong together, and I think something very important is going to happen with your relationship,” he concluded.
I was naked except for a blond wig, a rooster mask with flashing eyes and a homemade red paper crown.
I was covered with hash browns and vomit, I had a bag of bones under the bed, I had a Huggy Bear doll on the table filled with cocaine, and I had just come to the realization that I didn’t care whether anyone I knew died so long as I didn’t have to deal
On top of all that, there was a transvestite in a tutu smoking crack on the bed next to me. I
I’ve seen my own death in dreams like this and it’s helped me appreciate life more. I’ve also seen my own life in dreams and it’s helped me appreciate death more.
“Everyone seems to have a dog this summer,” I thought. “Maybe that’s because they know our secrets and, despite that, don’t judge us.”
He always reminded me of the professor on Gilligan’s Island: he was smart enough to build a TV out of coconuts, but he could never fix the boat to take everyone home.
Most of the world’s problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.
“Get your dirty paws off me, you filthy ape.”
