“Everyone's feeling pretty,
It's hotter than july,
Though the world's full of problems,
They couldn't touch us even if they tried.”

“Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?”

“Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.”

“The only meat in the world sweeter, hotter, and pinker than Amanda's twat is Carolina barbecue.”

“She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.”

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

“What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.”

“He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.”

“The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.”

“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”