I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.