“The previous Madison Spencer would bother to hold their frightened hand, to calm and comfort them. Who I am now, however, I tell them to cry me a stinking shit river and fall down dead, already.”

“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”

“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”

“All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.”

“We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.”

“The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way.”