“The voices may propel you to warble along, or to dance, they may inspire you to seduction or insurrection or inspection or merely to watching a little less television. The voices of Barrett Rude Jr. and the Subtle Distinctions lead nowhere, though, if not back to your own neighborhood. To the street where you live. To things you left behind.And that's what you need, what you needed all along.”

“You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.”

“The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)”

“You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it.”

“I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.”

“Everything funny in a not-funny-at-all kind of way. Sarcasm as something you practiced like karate. Later concealing your mute fury when nobody fed you the opening lines.”

“I've learned not to trust what I see on television.”