“Everything's such an effort, even caring a little. Even being such a gigantic fuck-up wears me out. ”

“Be careful, little killer. The Fates can fuck with you in ways you can’t even imagine.”

“His embrace said all the things his lips could not or would not, they said you're safe and I will protect you maybe even some semblance of caring about me, however fucked up, but everything was fucked up. Through it all his lips only repeated, 'I made them pay'.”

“The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.”

“If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.”

“The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out. Everything has something to do with something; nothing is divorced. It becomes an experience,a feeling or a aconglomeration of experiences...”