Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

Feeling - what authentic human fun!

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception.

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.