Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

Chuck Palahniuk Quotes