Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.