A perfect joke is somewhere between an angel and a fart. - Sarah Ruhl

You say a prayer, Virginia. A prayer cleans the air the way water cleans the dirt.

If the proper audience for poetry is God, then the proper audience for the novel is people. Plays have both stories and poetry. Therefore the proper audience for plays is: people and God. But: what is the audience for poetry in a godless universe? The audience for poetry in a godless universe is the academy. Or perhaps: other poets and therefore God? And what is the proper audience for plays in a godless universe? Is there no proper audience for plays in a godless universe? Must we invent our own gods?

No extra hospital words. I don't want a relationship with disease. I want to have a relationship with death. That's important. But to have a relationship with disease — that's some kind of bourgeoisie invention. And I hate it.