“We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.”

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

“Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it”

“I transform fiction into memory.”

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.”

“Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality”

“Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.”