A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.