That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.