“The se­cret is to not let your imag­ina­tion get car­ried away.”

“Ac­cord­ing to the agent, the se­cret to get­ting fa­mous is you just keep say­ing yes.”

“There’s a ter­ri­ble dark joy when the on­ly per­son who knows all your se­crets is fi­nal­ly dead. Your par­ents. Your doc­tor. Your ther­apist. Your case­work­er. The sun’s out­side the bath­room win­dow try­ing to show us we’re all be­ing stupid. All you have to do is look around.”

“Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.”

“No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.”

“Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang. ”

“You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard—something sostupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it’s been relocated miles away.”