The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) - ISBN: 9780547524146