So Now You're Death: Here's What You'll Need

Hope is merely another face of desire.

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.