“We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.”

“On Halloween I like to scare up business the old fashioned way: with flyers, business cards, and electroshock therapy while wearing spooky masks.”

“Sometimes I think life would be so much easier if we didn’t have to think about being boys or girls or men or women or old or young, fat or thin… if we could all just be certain we were the same. We might be bored, but the danger of life and of living would be gone.”

“Whatever we did see and endure in those stairs, we were the lucky ones. For some, there were no stairs and no exit at all.”

“We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.”

“We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That’s the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.”