The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It’s so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.

He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most “normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.

Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.

There are no mirrors of any kind in here. If there were, I’d want to smash them, but I wouldn’t. Instead, I’d probably just stare at them, giving myself negative affirmations.

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

I grow more intense as I age.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.