“There he lay spooked, a spinning wheel in a celestial bowling alley.”

“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”

“If your head comes off, don't start a fight in a goddamn bowling alley.”

“My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I’d been without drink or drugs in my adult life. [...] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. [...] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy – he was like a moose with a tracheotomy.”

“There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and without these spinning wheels, they simply do not know how to function. They are like toys on wheels of manipulation and control. If you remove one of the wheels, they'll never be able to feel secure, be whole.”

“I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.”