“Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.”

“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

“How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.”

“If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.”

“You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me.”

“Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.”

“When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.”