“I try to get centered:Watching white moon faceThe stars never feel angerBlah, blah, blah, the end”

“Watching white moon faceThe stars never feel angerBlah, blah, blah, the end”

“On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.”

“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

“Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register.”