“I have spent all my years accepting sad truths.—Quebrado”

“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”

“I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist.”

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside the bitter capsule of my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of a childhood? I have no desire to describe mine; I only want to say that in order to survive the dark and often terrifying passage of my life I came to believe certain things about myself.”

“Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land”

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”