Unavoidable Realities Quotes

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

I don't even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are inescapable to me. I'm connected by the hip with so many things in the streets.

I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.