“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

“Why is this all so hard? Why do these old men need it so hard?”

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”

“So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.”

“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.”

“If we’re not working in order to get rich, then why are we working at all? What are we supposed to do all day? Just sit home and watch TV?
Not at all, but thinking so is a temporary phase many people go through — when the values of the old world no longer have a hold on us, but the values of the new don’t yet grab your soul. They will.”

“One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

“Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”