Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.