Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.