mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it