Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I te…”

“Three weeks and I hadn't slept. Three weeks without sleep, and everything becom…”

“Here was our future of cheese-food and aerosol propellants, Styrofoam and Club …”

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-u…”