“Peo­ple are look­ing for how to put ev­ery­thing to­geth­er. They need a uni­fied field the­ory that com­bines glam­our and ho­li­ness, fash­ion and spir­itu­al­ity. Peo­ple need to rec­on­cile be­ing good and be­ing good-​look­ing.”

“As if any one of those peo­ple isn’t al­ready look­ing around for a new gu­ru to make sense out of their risk-​free bore­dom of a lifestyle while they watch the news on tele­vi­sion and pass judg­ment on me.”

“Most ev­ery­thing else I know is from the mess­es these peo­ple leave be­hind.”

“This is be­ing loved with­out the risk of lov­ing any­one in re­turn.”

“He can’t live with know­ing the fu­ture and not be­ing able to save any­one.”

“That’s what I tell peo­ple. My of­fi­cial ver­sion of the truth.”

“The main thing I wor­ry about in pub­lic is maybe peo­ple can tell I’m a sur­vivor.”