words to live by
"The only impulse Allen cops to is the one to work, maniacally, as if to stave off death. 'It's a way of coping with the world. You know, in the same way that somebody copes with it by being a stamp collector or a sports addict or a titan of industry or an alcoholic or something. My way of coping with the horrors of existence is to put my nose to the grindstone and work and not look up.'"