That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

We want someone to bring us the news.

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.