Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

This is passive-aggression in action.