“I go running in the park all the time. I guess I never looked up.”

“I run into trees all the time when I go sledding”

“All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking in the movie theatres. He was a good man, considerate and kind, but he was not strong. He had never been through any kind of bad hardship before. So I worried.”

“I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose it didn’t really matter. I even had a theory that time didn’t go in straight line at all. I knew I was no Albert Einstein, but I had the sneaking suspicion that everything had happened, was happening, or would happen was really happening all the time. There was no past, present, and future. Everything was going on all at once and forever. If that was true, then each moment was eternity.”

“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”