I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

I may not have all the time I thought I had.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.