"In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself'."
Introduction

"Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less." - "This is Emo", pg. 9.

"We don't need to worry about unconsciously "absorbing" archaic secret messages when they're six years old; we need to worry about all the entertaining messages people are consciously accepting when they're twenty-six."
This is Emo, p. 10

"The Sims makes the unconscious conscious, but not in an existential Zen way. The Sims forces you to think about how even free people are eternally enslaved by the processes of living." - "Billy Sim", pg. 17.

"People have always been depressed, but -during the early eighty's- there just seemed to be this overwhelming public consensus that being depressed was the most normal thing anyone could be. In fact, being...