“At home, you'll sometimes wake up in your dark bed with the terror you've fallen asleep in the booth and missed a changeover.”

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

“Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you a real artist.”

“No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.”

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.”

“The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.”

“This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it”