Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, 'I already have, mister.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?

I asked, 'You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same thing anyway?'Same - same,' he said. 'Same in end, so better to be happy on journey.'I said, 'So, if heaven is love, then hell is...'Love, too,' he said.

During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.