Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death.
When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. Scroll down for sources of quotations and special search engines.