Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?
Despite my lifetime of declining rich desserts, my evenings spent jogging, regardless of all my careful moderation and self-discipline—I’m trapped, wadded inside a shell of steel and aluminum. My body...
Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
Death is the One Big Mistake that none of us EVER plans to make.
Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.
Consider that the earth is a processing plant, a factory. Picture a tumbler used to polish rocks: a rolling drum filled with water and sand. Consider that your soul is dropped in as an ugly rock, some...
Committing suicide just seemed to be another aggressive plan to fix her life.
Choosing sides, the captain of the Red Team says, We’ll give you our best -pitcher.…And we’ll take the kid who picks his nose and eats it. And we’ll take the kid who smells like piss. We’ll take the l...
Cassie Wright's largest audience, the only part of her audience still growing, is composed of sixteen-to-twenty-five-year-old men. These men buy her backlist movies, her plastic breast relics and pock...
Cancer will be like that, I tell Marla. There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go bad.
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.
Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
Black-and-white chickens stagger around Colonial Dunsboros, chickens with their heads flattened. Here are chickens with no wings or only one leg. There are chickens with no legs, swimming with just th...
Birds and deer are a silly luxury, and all the fish should be floating.
Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted....
Because nobody wants bad news.
Besides.Eternity was going to seem like forever.With the crowds of smiling people smiling at me in the dark, me who spent my life cleaning bathrooms and mowing the lawn, I told myself, why rush anythi...