Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.