I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

The heart of a man is like deep water

I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.