Jim Goad Quotes

Unlike The Vast Majority Of People, I've Been Locked In A Box Like An Animal And I've Also Been On The Receiving End Of Bloody Thrashings, So I Feel Uniquely Qualified To Judge Which Is Worse.

I'm Still An Obsessive Personality, And I Still Think I'm Right, And I Still Believe My Literary Balls Hang Far Lower Than Nearly Anyone Else's Alive.

More Than Most, I Believe I'm Highly Attuned To How Heresies Eventually Become Mainstream Belief Systems And How The Vast Majority Of People Who Consider Themselves 'edgy' Are Those Who Only Embraced Radical Ideas Long After It Became Safe For Them To Do So.

I Think That Any Time A Person Comes Face-to-face With Their Own Mortality - Close Enough To Death That They Can Smell Its Breath - They Have A Choice: 1) Fall To Pieces; 2) Reassemble Yourself And Keep Walking.

People Can Be So Heartless And Dirty.

I Certainly Didn't Emerge From Prison Regretting Anything I Ever Wrote, Nor Did I Feel Remorse For My Crime In The Least.

One Of The Greatest Pleasures I Get From My Measly Professional Career Is Confusing People. "wait - He Beats Women And Seems Like A Nazi, But He Has Impeccable Grammar And Keen Reasoning Skills And Sings Country Music And Can, From Time To Time, Say Or Do Something Really Funny?" It Absolutely Doesn't Compute For Them. I Enjoy That Immensely.

The Idea Of "karma" Reeks Of Primitive Religious Superstition, So I Don't Place A Lot Of Stock In It.

I Believe That To Some Degree There Are Situational And Psychological Laws Of Cause-and-effect, But I Don't Believe There's Some Über-soul Who Doles Out "justice."

I'm Arrogant Enough To Tell You That I'm Smart Enough To Have Scored Higher On My Scholastic Aptitude Test Than Any Us President Whose Sat Score Has Been Made Public. I Even Scored Higher Than Ex-presidential Candidate Al Gore, Whose Sat Score Was So High, It Was Deemed As Potentially Off-putting To Voters.

I'll Argue Anyone Into The Dust When It Comes To Facts.

When I Write, I Strain With Every Wizened Fibre Of My Weathered Frame To Analyze Every Possible Angle Of Any Given Subject.