Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness.

I went to culinary school to eat.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

There are two types of people in the world: those who think everyone needs therapy, and those who have never been.

I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.

"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said. “The movie or the TV series?” “The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.