When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.