Jane Lane

"Gratitude is wasted on people who don't deserve it."

"Creativity is what you do when you're too weird for real life."

"Justice is just revenge in a suit and tie."

"Patience is for people without anything better to do."

"Kindness is usually just manipulation with a smile."

"Strength is knowing when to give up."

"Fear is just the appropriate response to reality."

"Power is wasted on people who want it."

"Health is just slowly dying in the most boring way possible."

"Adventure is just another word for making bad decisions."

"Imagination is the only thing more unreliable than reality."

"Technology is progress in the hands of people who don't understand it."

"History is just stories about dead people's mistakes."

"Philosophy is thinking really hard about things that don't matter."

"Literature is what people read when real life isn't depressing enough."

"Politics is the art of making people care about things they shouldn't."

"War is just politics with better special effects."

"Motivation is something successful people pretend to have."

"Inspiration is rare, which is why most art is disappointing."

"Relationships are just two people agreeing to be miserable together."

"Solitude is the only honest state of being."

"I draw. That's what I do. Everything else is just noise."

"Popular culture is just mass delusion with better marketing."

"School is just a machine designed to crush individuality."

"Daria and I have an understanding: we both hate everything equally."

"Fashion victims are just people in costumes pretending to be themselves."

"The best part about being an outsider is not having to pretend."

"Conformity is just fear wearing comfortable clothes."

"My skirt is a statement. The statement is: 'I don't care.'"

"Romance is just biology's way of tricking us into being disappointed."