Illustrations By Bill Mayer

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

You hold yourself so well, people would never suspect you're going through hell.

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

You dumb motherfucker life isn't about smelling flowers or feeling radiant sunshine on your skin or making meals with your loved ones. You idiot son of a bitch. It's about apps. It's about scrolling through apps.

I really want to be in a community and I don't know how

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

— Vincent van Gogh

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I've been watching too much jojo bizzare adventures, that my taste of men has changed and every time I look at men, a chunky & big, it whispers in my head

"This is a jojo reference--"