You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Suicide is very contagious.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.

It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family.

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.