“Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.”

“You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.”

“No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ." "And?" "No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”

“Where did she come from, and where can I find one?""Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.”

“His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.”

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”