Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.