“On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.”

“You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.”

“Because if we're on the road to hell, we're going to dance the whole damn way and give them something to talk about when we're gone.”

“What do we say to a guest who forgets her umbrella? Do we run after her and say "What is the matter with you? Every time you come to visit you forget something. If it's not one thing it's another. Why can't you be like your sister? When she comes to visit, she knows how to behave. You're forty-four years old! Will you never learn? I'm not a slave to pick up after you! I bet you'd forget your head if it weren't attached to your shoulders." That's not what we say to a guest. We say "Here's your umbrella, Alice," without adding "scatterbrain." Parents need to learn to respond to their children as they do to guests.”

“We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like we're together, because we're scared of seeing each other with somebody else.”

“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”