“I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.”

“I hate it hen people I love refuse to speak to me.”

“This is the saddest place on Earth," I say."Take it from a rat, kid--there are lots of saddest places on Earth.”

“Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?”

“When I wake up in the morning, I know that it's going to be the best day of my life. I never think about what I can't do. Make sure positive thoughts are the first ones you think in the morning. And never procrastinate.”

“I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.”

“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.”