“Poor boys are easier than middle-class or rich ones. Boys who've been busted are easier than boys who have not. Southern boys are easier than Northern boys. Marines are easier than Masturbation.”

“It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.”

“For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of "No.”

“Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.”

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

“It’s easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.”

“Mary feels she should have been a boy and then everything would have been so much easier. She fights against her femininity in a way.”