“You are permanent, but this life is not.”

“I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.”

“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”

“You had a near life experience.”

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”

“You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”