"I lay myself down on the ground ... and held my breath, there experiencing a mood that I have never really been able to shake completely - a mood of darkness and inevitability and fascination - a mood that surely must have been held by most young people since the dawn of time as they have crooked their necks, stared at the heavens, and watched their sky go out." p. 3-4

"'...most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives, the rest is filler, and that and the end of our lives, most of us will be lucky if any of those moments ... form a story that anyone would find remotely interesting.'" Dag to Andy, p.24

"'...my crisis wasn't just the failure of youth but also a failure of class and of sex and the future and I STILL don't know...