The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.