Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

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.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.