... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.

The difference is that was then, this is now.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.