The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way. — John Updike

He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?

No matter how hard you climb, there are always the rich above you, who got there without effort. Lucky stiffs, holding you down, making you discontent so you buy more of the crap advertised on television.

"Tell me, Nelson, I'm just curious. How does it feel to have smoked up your parents' house in crack?"