We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.