“I’ve actually started to think that it’s a purer state for people. Because he operates as if he’s a child and everything is new, which seems more honest.”

About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel’s Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth.

It is important not to show too many inches at once.

And so language for me doesn’t reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future – that’s how evolution occurs.

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.

I logically don’t believe that all this stuff [surrounding us] is generated from dust. But I’m also not like “Jesus Christ came down to save us.” It’s almost selfish to think that human beings, on this plane of reality, are the end of it.

What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don’t ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further.

I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years.

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.

I think I’m a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I’m curious.

…Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Making an idea into an emotion.

I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.