I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

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.

First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?