“A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”

“It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam”

“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ”

“There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.”

“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.”

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”