“I stepped into the back of a cab and simply told the driver, "Follow the blue Christmas tree...”

“His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.”

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

“Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.”

“Three weeks and I hadn't slept. Three weeks without sleep, and everything becomes an out-of-body-experience. My doctor said, "Insomnia is just the symptom of something larger. Find out what's actually wrong. Listen to your body."I just wanted to sleep. I wanted little blue Amytal Sodium capsules, 200-milligram-sized. I wanted red-and-blue Tuinal bullet capsules, lipstick-red Seconal.”

“I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.”