I'm a very neat monster.

What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.