I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not exactly sad. But I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But sometimes when I'm alone at night I forget how to feel.

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!