Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.