You either wise up or you kiss your family goodbye, and you go on to eventual self-destruction. ...But don't take your kids with you.

We came to say goodbye. They are a legend in our family.

Yeah and its over before you know it,
It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don't ever seem to last.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

...we're a people who pollute the very air we breathe. And our rivers. We're destroying the great lakes; Erie is already gone, and now we've begun on the oceans. We filled our atmosphere with radioactive fallout that put poison into our children's bones, and we knew it. We've made bombs that can wipe out humanity in minutes, and they are aimed and ready to fire. We ended polio, and then the United States Army bred new strains of germs that can cause fatal, incurable disease. We had a chance to do justice to our Negroes, and when they asked it, we refused. In Asia we burned people alive, we really did. We allow children to grow up malnourished in the United States. We allow people to make money by using our television channels to pursued our own children to smoke, knowing what it is going to do to them. This is a time when it becomes harder and harder to continue telling yourself that we are still good people. We hate each other. And we're used to it.

Ironically, the very substances that people become dependent on to evade their own self destruction are the catalysts of that process.