“Not until I stopped doing drugs altogether did I feel like a man. Not until I walked out of that fire did I have any idea what the word even meant.”
“He stepped on my shadow. I could not walk. And then I could not breathe. I did not know what had happened until it happened. It was like trying to stop the rain.”
“I did what any good rat would do. I bit down on the guard's hand until I tasted blood.”
“I have never, not once, not in my life, made love to any woman. Not once. Not until what I just did with you.”
“I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.”
“I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.”