Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.