Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.