“I'll tell u boys it's tough to be alone,and it's tough to love a doll that's not ur own.”

“I am still feeling kinda temporary about myself”

“Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away.But if you can't walk away?I guess that's when it's tough.”

“all paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity”

“it's the proper morning to fly into Hell.”

“It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.”

“What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!”