“It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end.”

“The stuff that changes your life is never very dramatic. You know? Not to other people.”

“But in this life we take turns at being enchanting, then enchanted. First we play in the streets, unaware of the freedom burning in the sun on our hair and the cigarette in our mouth, unconscious of the daydreams we inspire. Then it's our time to sit at a window and watch, and we are moved.”

“Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart.”

“But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.”

“Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out.”

“She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.”