That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.