...Americans couldn't imagine about what it was like to be something else and be proud of it.

I am still not clear how I got here.

...all you can do is play the cards they deal you.

... hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both present and past.

Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

... one friend was all that a man needed in order to be well-supplied with friendship.