"He stared the assorted meannesses and failed promises of American life straight in the face, and they stared back."

"While it's well known that as one gets older, one tends to find changes in the world at large unsettling, confusing, fucking irritating, a rebuke to one's very existence, it's generally not a good ide…"

"Okay, this is the thing. We spend all our time doing, you know, stuff. Maintenance. Ninety-eight percent of the day, all you’re doing is thinking about what you’re going to be doing to go on doing wha…"

"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage."

"The great question is not, who died right, but who lived right? There is infinitely more responsibility in living than in dying. The moment of death is the most unimportant moment of life. Nothing can…"