“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”

“I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here.”

“I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.”

“And my car back then, a Studebaker as I recall, was powered, as are most of all means of transportation and other machinery today, and electric power plants and furnaces, by the most abused, addictive, and destructive drugs of all: fossil fuels.When you got here, even when I got here, the industrialized world was already hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels, and very soon now there won't be any left. Cold turkey.Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn't the TV news is it? Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.”

“I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.”

“Sorry I'm not here to chat, but tell me something fabulous anyway.”