The Fall of the House of Usher Quotes

The thing about denial is sometimes problems do just go away on their own, so it makes it feel like denial works. The placebo effect.

The real world is Darwinian. Survival, chaos, power. Leverage.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

So much money. One of my favorite things about human beings. Starvation, poverty, disease, you could fix all that, just with money. And you don’t. I mean, if you took just a little bit of time off the vanity voyages, pleasure cruising, billionaire space race, hell, you stopped making movies and TV for one year and you spent that money on what you really need, you could solve it all. With some to spare.

Smart girls are only sexy until you realize they don’t wanna f*** you, and then they’re competition, and what do you do with competition? You take them down a peg.[to Rufus]

Satin is silk for poor people, and no one should wear it to a funeral unless they died in it.

Nobody knows they’re the fall guy until they’re falling.

Nobody gets away with anything. Not really.

Nearly realized is the sweetest. It’s better, I promise, in the moment just before than in the moment after. That is the truth of this world.

Life is insane. It is madness. And the sooner you understand that, the better off you’ll be.[to Lenore]

Language in its highest expression is musical.

If you want to test a bond, you don’t really need to break it. You just crack it a little.