“Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.”

“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”

“Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.”

“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

“At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.”

“A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.”

“And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks”