John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

by David Wong

All I did was meticulously record them exactly as they happened, then even more meticulously added a lot of things I just pulled out of my ass because I thought it would be funny.

I feel like the axis of good and evil lies right here, in our ability to get beyond the surface things that we find annoying, offensive or disgusting and to see through to the heart of the person in front of us (even if they’re, uh, not strictly a person). Staying sane and good in this life means realizing that your disgust is a conditioned response and sometimes that conditioning was done by people who had an agenda. It’s not that this universe isn’t full of dangerous things—it is—it’s that our criteria for deciding what we’ll fear and hate is really just a bunch of tribal customs established long ago by some petty, awful people.