“Life proceeds, it enrages.”

“To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.”

“You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.”

“People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.”

“I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.”

“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”

“He needs to go rub his soul against life.”