What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.