Relax - This won't hurt.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.