“The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”

“I get it now. I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”

“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”

“You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.”

“You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.”

“In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”

“I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.”