Friday, September 26, 2008
In the lives of children...
-Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, x
Monday, September 8, 2008
I was thrown out...
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. When I was thrown out, my mother, who was an emotionally high-strung woman, locked herself in the bathroom and took an overdose of Mah-Jongg tiles. I was depressed at that time. I was in analysis. I was suicidal as a matter of fact and would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and, if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss.
-Woody Allen, Annie Hall, 1977
Like a shark.
Annie, there's a big lobster...
-Woody Allen, Annie Hall, 1977
And it's all over much too quickly...
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. The... the other important joke, for me, is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud's "Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious," and it goes like this - I'm paraphrasing - um, "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women.
-Woody Allen, Annie Hall, 1977
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Most of us would be mostly forgotten.
-Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End, 368
Conformity
-Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End, 343