Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

Life is short, death is forever

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.