When people think your days are numbered, they're really very nice to you. It's only when you're trying to get on in the world that they bring their … - Steve Toltz

Confronting your own assassin is a tricky business; you don't want to trigger your own murder just for the sake of getting something off your chest.

Cancer thrives on broken hearts; it is a vulture waiting for you to give up on human warmth.

What is it with these fucking arsonists? I supposed they are less likely to be malignant smudges of evil than just dumb and bored: a deadly combination. And whatever happens in their upbringing, they emerge from adolescence with no sense of empathy whatsoever. These dumb, bored, unempathetic people are all around us. We can't trust anyone to behave himself. We always have to be on the lookout. Here's the case-winning example: it doesn't happen every day, but every now and again, people shit in public swimming pools. That just says it all to me.