“I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”

“God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.”

“I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.”

“I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.”

“The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or fall. I didn't know how to fly, and I didn't want to fall. So I backed away from the cliff and went in search of something that had a clear, solid trajectory for me to follow, like hopscotch. ”

“All kind of marvelous things go on. I don't see how anyone who has looked, and seen,can do ought but say, ‘where I stand, wherever I stand,I am on holy ground.”