Joey Comeau Quotes

If at first you don't succeed...run.

Sometimes Margaret tells herself that there's a moral difference between killing kittens for no reason and what she does.

The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.

I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.

Her face is bent out of shape, but still recognizable. There are too many teeth in her mouth, now. It is torn open at the sides. Split along her cheeks, so the weird jagged stones of her teeth can breathe.

I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.

Alzheimer’s disease is death before death, and I’m terrified of it.

My problem is that I can't come unless Johnny Cash is playing.

I want to make something, and I want people to know I made it.

I'm tired of the moral high ground. We've already got more than our share of Gandhis in "the movement". We need a General Patton. No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for HIS country.

You've spent every penny going out for adventures, and you expect the people back home to be your safety net. I know that, but again and again I get restless, and I need to just sell everything and take off, and I tell myself that I won't rely on people to catch me afterwards, but of course, they're always there, and they always catch me, because they love me whether I'm stupid or not.

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.

I had a shirt made up that says, "I consistently make poor life choices." The shirt was not very popular.

Now, I recognize that these are very real possibilities." I said. "But let's pretend for a second that they aren't.

I'd rather die terrified than live forever.