“If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.”

“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

“I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

“Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.”

“Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale”

“Sure, each night we staggered home, unfired, unglazed, already broken without knowing it. But at least we were trying.”

“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”