So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

I love you above all things, even pie.

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.