There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.