Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.