No intellectual interests.

"the parallels between Graceland and Neverland are expected and wholly unsurprising: it is what happens when incredible fame, fortune and near-limitless power are bestowed on young men with no real education and no intellectual interests."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-jackson-bad-and-very-dangerous-1731258.html

Water

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

David Foster Wallace
http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

the disappointments accumulate

"I'm speaking not just for myself," he continues. "Somehow, just in the nature of things, you know, the disappointments accumulate, and the obstacles multiply and you sense the destruction of your body, and your mind, and you feel here is the last arena — 'arena' is too big, the last boxing ring, or the last Ouija board, where you can examine some of the ideas that have intrigued you. That have seized you, really."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090227.wcohen0228/BNStory/Entertainment/home