Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.