Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time..

We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after….

Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange….

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence..

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead..

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?.

Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars..

Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like a glowing white planet….

I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried ….

...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant expe….

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it..

Work will drive you crazy if you let it..

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness..

Hurried business is bad business..