It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.