How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask."Keep going, " Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

Today is a good day to have a great day.

there is no healthier drug than creativity.

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

I don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.