Delete your apps; shoot your TV; dream your own dreams. 

"Nature abhors a vacuum and so do I," she said, sipping her martini, which was as dirty as her living room. 

He'd seen the worn-out souls with worn-out soles worn down by strife and striving to survive. 

 It's an abstract rallying point for you but for me, it was a day burned into memory, the metallic taste still on the tongue, the smell of burnt plastic still choking, the ghostly faces with thousand-yard stares still walking past.

Their thirst for outrage was only outstripped by the desire to grouse about it online. 

Left to his own devices, Dave would drink too much, only eat pizza, and forget to take out the garbage, so, he soon realized, leaving Lisa because of her complaints about the above tendencies now meant he would probably never change. 

Stan's idea of being spiritual simply meant being mean-spirited.