“The world that used to nurse usnow keeps shouting inane instructions.That's why I ran to the woods.”

“If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. -- Brown Dog”

“I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.”

“Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.”

“Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.”

“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”

“I seek the substantial in life.”