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Quotes by Jerry Stahl

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

Destroy your life; then put it back together.Youll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page – or run into off of it.

Still... I would have hugged my mother if we were the kind of family who hugged. If touching her werent impossible. If her subnightie waft was not so utterly, fatally repulsive. Thats how much I loved her.

Happiness, to me, was no different than Moms paprikalaced domino bars: something that looked sweet until you took a bite, and then made you want to vomit.