We're frightened of what makes us different.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

Need is not quite belief.

There was conversation and discussion at the table, a lot of it heated. He had a strong belief that Sunday night at 9 belonged to Desperate Housewives .