“You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.”

“We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.”

“There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.”

“...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.”

“As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.”

“It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.”

“It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.”