Alex Bosworth Quotes & Sayings

I've seen enough family photos in enough homes to know that the term "suitable for framing" should have a stricter definition. — Alex Bosworth

Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. But you know, an over-examined life can be a real crap festival, too. — Alex Bosworth

The truth is largely uncalled for. — Alex Bosworth

Henry Ford is quoted as saying. "History is more or less bunk." Now, if he never spoke those words, doesn't that just prove he was right when he didn't say them? — Alex Bosworth

It's not easy balancing a career, a family and a healthy outlook on life, which is why I don't. — Alex Bosworth

There's nobody out there who would call me a psychopath. I've seen to that. — Alex Bosworth

One day, back when I working at a video store, a woman accompanied by her two small sons walked up the counter with a tape box displaying a man slicing off someone's head with a chainsaw. "Does this have any sex in it?" she asked. In my mind, it was like I was narrating a nature documentary on humans. "Watch as the American mother protects her young ones from dangerous influences. — Alex Bosworth

Whatever I haven't accomplished biologically obviously wasn't all that imperative. — Alex Bosworth

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago. — Alex Bosworth

What doesn't kill you is probably just taking a break to freshen up so it can come back and finish you off later. — Alex Bosworth

I had to break up with Medusa. I just got sick of buying mice for her hair. I should have ended it sooner, but you try looking into those eyes. — Alex Bosworth

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen. — Alex Bosworth

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride? — Alex Bosworth

Twenty years ago, chaos theory was all the rage. I wonder what happened with that. Maybe all the excitement over it become so organized that its initial entropy failed to fall apart and disintegrate into nothingness leaving its proponents re-illusioned in certainty. I remember seeing an employee at a local book store arranging a subsection for literature about chaos among the science books. "There's the problem." I thought. "How can there be a chaos section? Those books should be distributed randomly throughout the store... that is, if there was any real disorder to things. — Alex Bosworth

It's spooky how we'll never know how many people have died while trying to mail a chain letter. — Alex Bosworth

Every time I write about life, I must kill and eat the actual event. I mean to say that my words are scavengers who need to devour lifeless substance if they are to survive as non-fiction. The event is dead, it ceased to be as soon as it happened. The closest I can come to resurrecting the past is to feed my memories to a ravenous swarm of sentences, punctuation and paragraphs. They chew up and digest the things I remember, producing a waste product I think of as an honest account. Reality suffers a second death through this process. False memories, both organic and manufactured, erase the genuine article in order to reassemble the factors into a serviceable construct. True story. — Alex Bosworth

Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one. — Alex Bosworth

Yes, I want the whole enchilada! Who orders a partial enchilada?! — Alex Bosworth

Try not to assess your sanity through others. Those who think you should be institutionalized are overreacting and those who think you're stable just aren't paying attention. — Alex Bosworth

I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard. — Alex Bosworth

There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it's probably best to avoid people who punch you. — Alex Bosworth

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway. — Alex Bosworth