“There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.”

“The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.”

“Anyway, it struck me now in a different light, as being yet another bit of personal meaning which had ben taken from me, stripped off like clothes I'd only borrowed or stolen. I had maybe the least persuasive case for self-pity of any human soul on the planet. Or anyway, the most hilarious.”

“...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?”

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

“Everyone's body betrayed them in different ways, it was all forgiven and never discussed.”

“I was famously in love with a woman who had no time to spare, not even a breath, for she dwelled in a place beyond time or the reach of anyone’s Rolodex, her every breath measured out of pressurized tanks.”