In the Wry

Perhaps adolescent angst is an appropriate reaction as the human race comes of age on a finite planet. Like teenagers on punishment, we all need an allowance reduction and suspened driving priveleges. 

Take most people, they're crazy about cars.  They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer.  I don't even like old cars.  I mean they don't even interest me.  I'd rather have a goddam horse.  A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield

This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind.  The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom.  He just keeps falling and falling.  The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with.  . .  They gave it up before they ever really even got started.

 ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini