Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters