“Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.”
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
“With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both.”
“Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to take decisive action in the face of pervasive problems. In the same way, the uncontrolled oil plume could become the objective correlative of the country's inability to govern itself.”
“This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.”
“Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.”