“I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.”

“Jack, get a grip of yourself.'I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.”

“Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.”

“He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly north of demented.”

“I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.”

“I have slipped out of Africa for a breath of time.”