“His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.”
“Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.”
“I keep hoping some guy with 'Ron' or 'Andy' stitched on his pocket and a gas pump in his hand will step up and tell me where I'm headed.”
“I’d love to work with an Asian guy named Wu Hu, because just saying his name would get me all pumped up and excited.”
“...ultimately, all diseases are magical diseases...("Gas Station Carnival")”
“You’ll have to take me to some museums,” he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men’s rooms across the country.”