Joey Comeau Zitate

“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.”

“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.”

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

“There are jobs I could work, temp jobs, call center jobs, tech support, if I had to. I have before, and I suspect that there will be times in my life when I have to get those jobs again, when I have to make ends meet. But I don't have another career waiting for me. I don't want another career.”

“Now I feel I am ready to face a world with sharp corners and all. I feel I am ready to come to work for Abrasion Enterprises.”

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

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

“DEATH TO THE CARTOON HETEROSEXUAL PARADIGM.”

“Sometimes I think dent-resistant side panels are a waste of money, but then I remember ladies be always throwing themselves at my car, and titties can wreak havoc on a paint job.”

“Romance is all about making a story out of our love”

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

“The depression and suicidal fantasies of three years ago are nothing but a memory to me now.”

“If at first you don't succeed…run.”

“My other pro-tolerance message is also condescending.”

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

“Listening to music that I hate calms me down.”

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

“I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.”

“…There’s a romance to danger. There’s a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.”

“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.”

“When I played "doctor" I played to win.”

“When the end comes, I hope it’s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we’ve never seen before.”

“My dead family and I are in your debt, and I long to help you in any way I can.”

“…You'll never find someone calling A Softer World good natured. I don't think we do a completely bleak comic, but good natured just isn't a way you could ever describe it. Or my novels. Not the way I want.”

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

“I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.”

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