When you're fat like me, you get hungry. ... I'm still hungry. I hadn't eaten since noon. I'm still too old and still too fat, but as long as those people keep cheering when I get up there, I'm going to keep doing it.

for a fat kid like me, it felt like Mount Everest.

I guess Matt didn't think anything when he got me sideways over in [Turn] 2, either.

When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh.

Yeah, Matt always thinks that. I guess Matt didn't think anything when he got me sideways over in (Turn) 2. He should have thought about that first. He got back what he started in the first place.

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.