That was the definition of our faith. Nothing was to be known. Anything was to be expected.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.

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

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can’t feel a thing.

The caseworker cured me of a hundred syndromes, none of them real, and then declared me sane. She was so happy and proud. She sent me out into the light of day, cured. You are healed. Go forth. Walk. A miracle of modern psychology.

It’s music as wallpaper, utilitarian, music as Prozac or Xanax to control how you feel. Music as aerosol room freshener.

You realize that people take drugs because it’s the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.

ghoul.