I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.