Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

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

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.