“The moment one learns English, complications set in.”

“One of the most important things I've learned in life is that complicated isn't always bad. Sometimes complicated is just complex.”

“The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”

“Because this is one of the things I learned on my own: you need to say things simply, especially when they're complicated.”

“You can learn English online”

“Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.”