There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

Proof that no investment is yours forever.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.