Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.

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.

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.