The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Suicide is very contagious.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

This is the difference time createsWe bleed our misbehaviorAnd in silent prayer, repentIt is only necessary that we fall away againInto love

If you’d rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won’t hate you for more than a day. Maybe two.

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?