Saturday, July 12, 2008

Random Bits from Other Novels

“Sometimes I feel like my life is just a shitty remake of the most boring movie ever made.”

“What movie would that be?”

“I don’t know. Dr. Zhivago?”

Dr. Zhivago?”

“Yeah. You ever actually try to watch that thing? Oh my God! Boring!”

“People consider it a classic.”

“People consider Coca-Cola ‘classic’, and that’s just flavored sugar water.”

“Don’t you find joy in anything?”

“I should have been born Russian. Then I could write stories about me walking around pointing out all the crazy, depressing shit in the world. Then people would consider me ‘classic.’ But no, I had to be born American, so people just think I complain too much.”