Johnny Rich

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.

You know, sometimes I even envy myself.

There__ no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God__ existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.

Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.

That small difference made all the difference.

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?

I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.

Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.

He__ a typical existentialist. And that__ a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.

I__e often been criticised, but never critically wounded

Rejection is no badge of honour.

Even Damocles developed a routine.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.