I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.