“Take away health, wealth, and material success and all you have is each other. Maybe that's the place we should start.”

“I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this.”

“Here we are all, by day; by night, we're hurledBy dreams, each one, into a several world.”

“I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.”

“Emma says after I was born I cried for days. She said I'd never shut up which is funny really because Dad says I never shut up now so maybe that's what happens, you get born and act the same your whole life.”

“take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning”

“I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.”