“Friends are made my many acts and lost by only one.”

“i was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.”

“For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn't the training, nor the pain of seeing friends die, nor the will to win that made the men fight, but their will to survive that made them soldiers.”

“I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.”

“Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand to God, one person clapping once and only once, and then I start into my act.”

“I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only one of many, and almost too pretty to look at.”