::QUOTES from Invisible Monsters:: Somewhere in heaven, you're live on a video web site for God to surf. When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you. Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. Sometimes the best way to deal with shit is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize. The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill. Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort. The world is your cradle and your trap. Our real discoveries come from chaos. Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. Mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Do the things that scare you the most. Make me into anything, but just love me. What I wanted looked more and more like what I'd always been trained to want. Sorry, mom. Sorry, God. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. The future is just wasted on some people. First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. Which is worse: Hell or nothing? Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. Who you are moment to moment is just a story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. Only when we eat up this planet will god give us another. We will be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.