Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.