“This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.”

“Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.”

“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.”

“Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.”

“I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.”

“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”

“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”