“A lot of people around here going off the deep end with all these epidemics going around, like the crack epidemic”

Some of the best white supremacist rhetoric is couched in the language of self-defense

“No doubt, our bodies are shot through with meaning, riddled with definitions and qualities not of our own choosing.”

“I tend to take my drugs at exactly the times those PSA films from grade school warned not to: when alone, when depressed, anx­ious, etc. That one can do this with X and live to tell is one of its charms.”

“One day his trajectory from junior high dropout to Video Archives clerk to cinema wunderkind may eclipse L.A.’s longstanding specimen tale of Lana Turner at Schwab’s.”