“If I weren’t already dead, I’d be alive with joy,”
“Sometimes I get depressed about my age. In March I’ll be 26. If man weren’t measured in numbers, but rather letters, I’d be turning Z. And then I’d be dead.”
“Why do you care so badly that I live, if while alive, I am already dead?”
“I’d say over my dead body, but I think you already made that point,” Michael snapped. “Thanks for the visit. Now fuck off, man.”
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”
“First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.”