Joe Chip said, ‘I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it. - Philip K. Dick

"The termination of a relationship," he said, "is not a misunderstanding. It's a reorganization of life."

Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.

If you'll remember, helping people was one of the two basic things Fat has been told long ago to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channeled into saving people.

Better he had kept on with the dope.