Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

Love is a skill you learn.