“I just inhaled kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may be obscured by tears.”

“Every choice has a consequence, every consequence another choice. Little agonies waiting to be embraced. Only the moment before the choice really weighs anything. Very heavy moments, exploding into nothing.”

“I'm Canadian, so I'm an expert at mundane fatalism.”

“Curse you, cheap beer. Must find miso in tiny packet.”

“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”

“Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.”

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”