“But I've seen enough to know that we all carry a measure of guilt and innocence among us.”

“Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.”

“This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once so gullible and needy that he drank deeply of such weak and fruity Kool-Aid. That's some other book. Slogans saved my life. All of them--the dumb ones, the preachy ones, the imperatives, the cliches, the injunctives, the gooey, Godly ones, the shameless, witless ones.”

“The eyes that saw too much because they did not close enough.”

“I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon”

“[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is the point of that?”

“We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.”