I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.