Quotes from Johnny Rich, The Human Script

Silent is an anagram of listen.

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

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

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

These are the things you don't say, even to someone you love.

Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.

The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

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.

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

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

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

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

Even Damocles developed a routine.

I've often been criticised, but never critically wounded