“Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!”

“What was the worst thing you've ever done?I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...”

“Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”

“Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is ever tragic. Many if not most of Guston's objects, even the most hilarious, are.”

“Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us”

“You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.”