Masochism is a valuable job skill.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

you can make mean anything.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.