716 Quotes by A.D. Aliwat

What sort of a God would actually build someone up just to knock them down?

Living alone is so fucking expensive in New York.

New York: the capital of the world, the center of the universe.

Anybody who’s ridden a bike through the streets of New York City knows yellow cabs deserve every bit of badness that comes their way, especially undercutting competition.

There was no great novel of the nineties. The last major books came out in the eighties, and they were Blood Meridian and then I’d say White Noise by Don DeLillo, who very well might have seen where everything was heading and whose work then articulated it all very well.

Around one hundred thousand people died in Hiroshima. Why did we think so little of their freedom? What have we done for the hibakusha since?

While bonobos are very peaceful and pretty happy, they’re also very gross. As a society. They engage in incest. And not just cousins or brothers and sisters. Absolutely anything goes, including parents with their children, with the exception sometimes of mother and adult son. The most heinous of human crimes is normal for them. And none of them ever settle down. They don’t ever practice monogamy. It isn’t a phase, it’s just how sex works in their society.

If people stopped having sex, the world would end in about a hundred years. Think about that shit. If money and power didn’t exist, people would still be fucking.

I know you’re not going… to kill me. I’m already dead.