“I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”

“But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”

“The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in fa...”

“I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.”

“My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.”

“Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?”

“When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.”

“If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligentl...”

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than z...”

“Dont put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.”

“Good deeds are only done when there's a profit margin.”

“I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”