“Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...”

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”

“Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.This can be tricky.”

“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”

“Word inflation . . . Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.”

“You must have been traumatized beyond fucking belief”

“Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower”