“I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing”
“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
“I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.”
“I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.”
“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”