“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. ”

“That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.”

“It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.”

“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”

“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.”

“Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures...”