“Sammy, wouldnt you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled....”

“Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person youve had sex with. A person youve licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on.”

“I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.”

“I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I wont say I rested.”

“I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.”

“I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”