“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”

“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”

“Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.”

“And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”

“Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.”

“There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.”

“I signed my likeness away. Every time I look in the mirror, I have to send Lucas a couple of bucks.”