Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

We all need a meaning to our life.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.