“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”

“The New York Dolls were toweringly influential. They were way ahead of their time, although always reliably late at the hairdressers.”

“They were both at such an age that they stood on a cusp. They could think in one part of their minds that their whole lives stretched out before them without boundary or limit. At the same time another part guessed that youth was about over for them and what lay ahead was another country entirely, wherein the possibilities narrowed down moment by moment. ”

“THE BEST WAY TO FOOL SOMEONE, in Vin’s estimation, was to give them what they wanted. Or, at the very least, what they expected. As long as they assumed that they were one step ahead, they wouldn’t look back to see if there were any steps that they’d completely missed.”

“Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.”

“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.”