“Wanda's sole interests are getting high and getting laid. I can't picture her wasting valuable stoner hours on murder.”

“...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself”

“But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.”

“Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high”

“As she walked, trying to find a hotel--any hotel--she was offered at least ten different ways of getting high, four or five ways of getting laid, and at least one way of getting even.”

“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”