“Being a thinker was a various thing. Sometimes you felt like a turtle, with a nice, private built-in place to shelter. Other times it was like having a bucket stuck on your head, making the world clang and echo and never stop.”
“Sometimes my life here felt like a cage where I could never escape the pain. At other times it felt like the only firm ground on earth”
“Sometimes you have to do things you don't like in order to make a change in the world.”
“Beer's nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart.”
“For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”
“Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.”