I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.