"In this age when fame is the alter at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or tha... more

"In this age when fame is the alter at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or that I existed.

I am not a celebrity. I am not the child of a celebrity. I have never been married to, never been abused by, and never provided a kidney for transplantation into any celebrity. Furthermore, I have no desire to be a celebrity.

In fact I am such a nonentity by the standards of our culture that People magazine not only will never feature a piece about me but might also reject my attempts to subscribe to their publication on the grounds that the black-hole gravity of my noncelebrity is powerful enough to suck their entire enterprise into oblivion."

- Odd Thomas