"Vernon God Little" Quotes

You don't have to go through life being happy all the time. It's not written anywhere.

Hell, I don't believe in anything anymore. You can't afford to believe in anything in this world.

People got too much time on their hands and don’t know what to do with it. They be up late hitting the drugs, looking at the late-night ads for the ab enhancer, the potato slicer or the pocket fisherman.

You do what you want. That's freedom. You go on blaming everyone else. That's being a loser.

People just trying to fix themselves something nice in the middle of hell.

Hope is like taking a flyer on a secondhand car. It's always crazy to do, but you do it anyway.

Funny how tv washed your eyeballs out. Funny how you used to nag your old man to turn it up. Now you could scream yourself hoarse and he wouldn't even know you were there.

Rules help, you know. They provide boundaries. But eventually, you have to step outside of them, even if it means breaking them.

Sometimes grown-ups don’t tell the truth, even when they’re paid for it.

Sometimes you've gotta tell 'em what they wanna hear, because truth's such a funny story.