“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.”

“You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.”

“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”

“Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now?" she says.”