the actress playing Celia could ask why god had ever put her on earth.
and then the voice from the back of the theater could rumble: "to reproduce. nothing else really interests me. all the rest is frippery.

“I am not dying," said Rumfoord. "I am merely taking my leave of the solar syste…”

“My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child.”

“And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "P…”

“I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for a…”