Rafael Yglesias

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.

The world is chock-full of monsters.

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?

It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.

There__ nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

Also, serial killers, child killers, they__e hot, they__e the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody__ favourite spook monster.

Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.