We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

I have guts, just not when it counts.

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.