from Road Diary

"...Now that I am trying to explain it, I see that it is not so simple. Of course we felt great pity for this guy and what had suddenly become apparent about his life. But how strange, how unbelievable that he would have brought us here. And we were so tired and discouraged. And there was the Paula Cole thing. And the teenagers. If I'd been alone I think I might have been unaccountably terrified...."