but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

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 inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.