History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.