“Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.”
“What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there.”
“I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.”
“And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.”
“A child, I'm miserable admitting it, a child stands like a priest under his father's sky. Why do you fate me to fail you?”
“The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.”