“Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.”

“The porpoise has always been a sign of renewal and of the charged magical life.”

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”

“He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.”

“Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.”

“Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.”

“I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.”