“Because It's my name. Because I can not have another in my life. Because I'm not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang. How may I live without my name? I've given you my soul. Leave me my name.”

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

“I have pride in my name, because I have pride in myself. I do not represent my name—my name represents me.”

“I know I can make my mark on this world, and not because of my last name - but because of my own talent.”

“Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.”

“Why would you want my given name?""Because I'd like to call out your given name when I thrust into you."~Dante”

“I named my car Itch, not because it’s all scratched up, though it is, but because it got under my skin without tickling my fancy.”