“I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.”
“Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don't be afraid. Be alive.”
“...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.”
“That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father or Fats or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that being alive is a crock of shit.”
“The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.”