Lester Bangs Quotes

Nothing amazes me anymore.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

It's boring to be a poser.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I'm done with cool. I've been done with cool for years.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Maybe it's because I'm jaded, but not a lot scares me.

Nothing really shocks me anymore.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.

In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone. Even in line for coffee, you're standing with someone who's trying to be so interesting.